Respons to Metcalf Presentation

It was really interesting to hear about how the concept of beauty could be so different in Asia than in America. It made sense after i though about what i had seen in my trip to china the previous summer. I was shopping outside with my parents when i saw a woman riding a bike with a dark visor and a white reflected sleeve pulled all the way up her arm. I believe that this represented the more eastern norm, where whiter=better. It could have come from a belief that people born from the western world was better than those from the eastern world.

The discussions that the people present had was very interesting. There was a lot of talk concerning "acting asian" and why people would try to be more white or asian. Yet i feel that we went around the issue and did't focus on the main problem, the huge difference between the two cultures and how the two cultures were not as easy to compare as they are vastly different.