Hello guys! Welcome to my blog, in which I am going to talk about the mainstream beauty standards in Eastern Asia (specifically Korea, China and Japan) compared to the beauty standards in the Western world (specifically the US, UK and Canada). If I have enough time/resources, I would also like to talk about the effects the discrepancies between these two cultures’ standards of beauty has on immigrants, but I don’t quite know if I am going to be able to cover that much material. I would rather go more in-depth on a single specific issue than cover a whole bunch of issues very briefly.

The main goal of this blog is to look at the differences not only between the Western world and Eastern Asia view beauty, but the different standards of beauty held within Eastern Asian cultures. I want to avoid lumping China, Japan and Korea into one large singular entity, and instead recognize them as independent societies/cultures. In short, I would like to compare and contrast the mainstream conceptions of beauty held by each culture.

I should have some links posted tomorrow or saturday, but I wanted to keep this intro post separate from them just for organizations sake.

Thanks for reading!