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Is Plastic Surgery a New Religious Rite of Passage?
Jeremy Biles, Religion Dispatches. April 25, 2010.
Though it may be a global phenomenon, the roots of this fixation on the body may lie partly in American religion.
Are Asians Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White?
Andrew Lam, New America Media. March 31, 2007.
Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in Asia it is as routine as having one's wisdom teeth pulled. Are these alterations an attempt to look more "white?"