Hi, I'm Byun Young-eun. I commited my thought to writing about plastic operation, and I wanna show you this.
Plastic Operation and a New Identity
Through the years, our bodies are changed. We can think that the change reflects us:a scar, transformation by a habit, etc. Then, can plastic operation also be a reflection of us? I can't answer yes nor no.
For a long period, people adorn themselves by transforming their bodies. Foot-binding in China, a corset in Western, and pressing down an infant's forehead in Back-je can be some examples. Can we say that they reflect a person? My answer is no, because I think they can be a culture, but cannot be a special experience of a person or explain a person.
On the other hand, can we call them a plastic operation? I don't know, but I think we can group them and plastic operation together. Plastic operation can be a culture, but cannot explain a person. There are so many people who had plastic operation. It's not special now.
Some people look plastic operation so bad cause it's not real. However, what's the real? If plastic operation were not real, how the things that were in China, Western, and Back-je can be explained? That's not real nor not real.
I think plastic operation is just an identity of this age just like foot binding was. It can reflect people in this age, but not a person by person.
Young-eun,
답글삭제You make some very thoughtful and important distinctions. You make a good distinction between plastic surgery and a person's identity. I think this is important because many people judge people who get plastic surgery, but perhaps those people need to think more deeply before they judge. What you write encourages deeper thinking. Well done.