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On Our Radar: “Beauty, Redefined”

Mume Yoshiwara’s thoughts about Asian beauty was published in Marie Claire back in May. 

There are 4.1 billion Asians in the world, or almost 60 percent of the entire human race. Some 17.3 million of them live in the United States. Asian cultures are some of the oldest on the planet. So why, given so much representation and centuries to, you know, expand our tastes, is the definition of Asian female beauty still this narrow?

Read the full article here. Mume does a great job at explaining all of the different layers of why Asian women are held to such “strict” standards of beauty, still.


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