Ethnic plastic surgery
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Ethnic plastic surgery, or ethnic modification, refers to the types of plastic surgery performed frequently due to certain racial or ethnic traits, or with the intention of making one's appearance more similar or less similar to people of a particular race or ethnicity.[1] Popular procedures which may have an ethnically motivated component are rhinoplasties (nose jobs) and blepharoplasties (double eyelid surgeries).[2]
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Michael Jackson's plastic surgery has been discussed in the context of ethnic plastic surgery.[3] In her book, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery, Elizabeth Haiken devotes a chapter to "The Michael Jackson Factor" presenting "black, Asian, and Jewish women who seek WASP noses and Playboy breasts. They are caught in the vexed immigrants' dilemma of struggling not only to keep up with the Joneses but to look like them, too."[4]