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Is Double Eyelid Surgery An Anti-Asian Decision?

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0:00 You could blindfold me with floss. That's kind of my default face, though. >> Mhm. You have double eyelids. >> That's me when I'm focusing. >> You look like you got vagina for eyes. >> Woah, you're you're saying my eyelids look like labia majora and minora, huh? >> Okay, beauty experts, what do you guys think about double eyelid surgery? >> Uh I think my mom's got it like three times. >> I dated a Korean girl that had it. >> Your mom has it? >> She got it like multiple times. >> Dude, my mom got it like ████ Uh do you remember Do you remember my at my baby shower? >> Yeah. >> Remember my dad showed up with like veneers? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> You look good. >> And my mom also had just gotten the same uh double eyelid surgery in Vietnam. >> Do you Did you notice a difference? >> What does it mean to get it multiple times? >> Like cut it away Cut it away and then like 10 years goes by and you just get more fat and stuff. And then it's just

0:50 like >> Oh, so like it can wear off? >> Uh I I think so. >> That's a crazy way to explain that. >> I don't know. She It's It's like a It's like you know when people like get Botox or like staple their ████ back or whatever. After time, it'll loosen back up. >> Oh, I didn't know that double eyelid had that property. >> I don't know. All I know she's done it multiple times over over like decades. >> Wow. >> Wow, dude. >> I dated a I dated a girl that had it. I dated I dated a girl that had it. She was Korean. >> You look like You look like you just had it right now with those eyes. >> He's trying to like impress us right now. >> He's like, "I I I dated a girl that had it." >> Wait, but >> When I lost some weight, I get it. >> What do you mean? Does that happen? >> You mean when he lose weight, your your face goes like this and it reveals eyelids? [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Eyelids you never had. So, here's a here's a guy one if you want to see the difference. >> He still look ching chong to me. >> Well, yeah, but

1:41 I don't think it I don't think it takes away your entire ethnicity. >> We're all stuck with them. >> Do you like the look? Do you care? Does this even stand out to you as anything at all? >> Not really. >> I mean, the dude on the right is more attractive, right? >> Okay, here. Take a look at this. >> Is he? >> I have I have one double eyelid. You have both double eyelids? I have one and I have one single like that. Wait, let me see. What a freak, dude. That's disgusting. >> I get that sometimes when I wake up and then it goes back to normal for me. >> Yeah, like this eye sometimes this is like a lazy eye kind of. >> Yeah. >> Uh not as bad as like Steve's, but um basically to me I think when I was younger because my sister hella wanted it so she would do You remember when girls would take the ████ like tape? And they were like every day before every day before school >> Yeah, they tried to crease it.

2:31 >> Yeah, she would put that tape there and you would you would buy that tape at like the wherever ████ girls buy that ████ >> Just scotch tape. >> And then they would actually uh tape these double eyelids and then go to school and stuff like that, right? And so I'd be like, why do why do girls want this so bad? And then from there I'd be like, okay, I guess that's it's supposed to be a thing like that's really cool, but once my mom got it I remember I was like, Mom, why you getting this double eyelid surgery cuz I was already you know, keen to like understand my sister's doing it for like a look that high school is like, I'm like, what the ████ you doing this Mom? You little slept. But um she said >> [laughter] >> she said that she was doing it at that time to cut off like excess fat because they were heavy, so it was making her sleepy and tired through the day. >> [laughter] >> That's like that's like when when people get nose jobs and they go, my septum was deviated. >> [laughter] >> So that's what she said when I was young at the time. At that point I was like, you know, I don't need this cuz I

3:21 thought it was like a a a functional thing. >> Oh, you believed it? That it was functional? >> You can see more or something? >> I can't see more if you do this. >> You think? >> Her eyes were definitely more open. >> Here's the female one. >> Yeah, look how much look how much more eye is exposed. >> Yeah, but my eyes feel drier immediately. >> it looks more of a difference on ladies than it does on a guys. Maybe it's cuz they have longer lashes or something. >> Or maybe they do a bunch of other stuff to amplify it. >> Yeah, maybe. >> I think yeah, they do more, yeah. >> Cuz like her eyebrows also look better. >> much is double >> eyelid surgery? What if you get three eyelids, bro? What happens then? Your eyes get even bigger, you know? >> I don't know about attractive level actually, because on the left she looks more like mysterious. And on the right she's more like bubbly. >> Maybe in this example, cuz like those eyes are so like powerful regardless,

4:11 but in that guy example there was a ████ huge difference. >> There was a huge difference. >> There's a huge difference. >> Damn, so you're saying single eyelids are less attractive? I feel attacked. >> You literally have like double eyelid right now that they're folded. >> No, they're not. I have a single eyelid, bro. >> You think you have single eyelid? >> You think I have double? >> I thought you had double. >> It's literally double, right? I'm looking at two eyelids right now. >> the most ████ eyes here. You can't qualify. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> You think you look like this guy? >> Yeah. >> Kind of. >> I'm looking at him right there. Look. You could blindfold me with floss, dude. >> Look at the dude next to him. >> [laughter] >> That's what I'm That's my frame of reference. That looks like a single eyelid to me. >> Okay, when you're doing that >> No, it's because you're going like this. >> That's kind of my default face, though. >> You have double eyelids. >> That's me when I'm focusing. >> Yeah, you have straight You have a crease. Straight up. >> You look like you got vagina for eyes.

5:01 So, you definitely got the crease there. >> Woah, you're You're saying my eyelids look like labia majora and minora, huh? Okay. >> That's disgusting, dude. >> You know how like I think men and women are just judged differently in that way where like women are always like You know when women don't have makeup on? They they feel like they don't look awake. They feel like they don't look They look tired. You know that thing? >> I tell ladies they look disgusting. >> [laughter] >> You should put some makeup on when you leave the house. >> You know why? It's because they put makeup on so much that they don't have they don't look vibrant. Because they're covered all the time. >> Not even some blush on those cheeks. That's what I say. >> [laughter] >> Because like when you look at her like this she looks more alert and awake, yeah? >> It looks like AI. >> Well, it looks like she's less sleepy, too. >> Also, it seems like now that she has

5:51 double eyelids, like she's more confident to open her eyes all the way. >> [laughter] >> I have the range of motion to do so now. >> think there's a thing, like let's say that uh So, like let's say that a woman has double eyelids, right? She gets She gets a double eyelid surgery. Can she still talk about like Asian pride? >> [laughter] >> I think so, because I never thought that it was to be more white. I just thought that like it's like a it's like a surgery. >> It's to move the fat away from your eyes so you don't sleep as much in the day. >> No, no. I just thought it was like a cosmetic thing. Like So, for example, right? If a if a girl gets like like breast surgery or whatever, right? >> Augmentation, brother. Augmentation. >> You just want bigger titties. So, like I don't I don't see it as like you're trying to be white. >> But bigger titties bigger titties occur in every race. >> I guess it's more frequent with black and white, though. >> Uh not according to your data you told

6:42 us. >> Not the jugs on those Japanese hinas. >> [laughter] >> Have you seen your people, dude? >> Japanese boobies are big. >> AVN girls, I don't know how they get a small waist and a big ass titty like that. >> I don't know either, [laughter] but >> That's the Hitomi epidemic. >> I'm doing a thesis on it. I'm studying it. >> But yeah, like don't this doesn't seem like that's going against your inherent like genetic traits for like your people? >> Isn't that just going against human genetic traits? >> I guess, but then like >> Yeah, but that's like telling like Indian people if they don't smell like curry that it's like you're trying to be white and ████ >> You whitewashing yourself. >> [laughter] >> I would like to see the data of like >> Oh, you want to use ████ Dove soap and ████ >> Why don't you just show your roots proud, okay? >> I would love to see if someone could correlate the data, if they can collect this information and be able to calculate what is the rate of people

7:32 that get double eyelid surgery or anti-Asian augmentation that are also at the Gold Gala. >> That's hilarious. >> Cuz you know there is a population of Asian people that do think that if you get double eyelid surgery, you're you know, you're selling out. There's a for sure a population that think that. >> people just they don't want to talk about it anymore. Because it you know, like I guess you could spin it that way and be like, "Oh, that's odd that you're so Asian excellence, but yet you don't want the traits that you were born with that You know what I mean? Like >> Oh, yeah, I get what you mean cuz it's like a very Asian distinct trait. >> Whereas like if you saw if other people did it, then you wouldn't think that they're trying to be like white. >> But that's also hard to say though because like like look, he's Asian, he got double eyelids. Like people have it. It's maybe Asian distinct, but like at the same time people >> But Korean Korean people aren't

8:24 inherently born with that, right? >> Let me ask you this. So in the '90s it was really popular for celebrities get nose jobs nose jobs, right? >> No jobs? [laughter] >> No jobs, yeah. >> Really? There were just no jobs for >> Unemployed. But like no one said no one said to them "Oh, it's because they're Jewish and they want to look more European." No one said that, but that's the truth though. Is that like >> Damn, dude. You were going for it. >> But that's the truth. >> I bet there were some people that were saying that though. >> The truth is a lot of Jewish actors for the longest time, they would anglified their names. >> Yeah, change your names. >> And then they would get nose jobs to look more European. But then no one called it out and be like, "Oh, you're not down with your Jewish roots?" >> Cuz they didn't want to lose their jobs. >> [laughter] >> Like, "Why don't you have a Jewish name? Why don't you freaking keep your proud Jewish nose?" Like no one says that to them. >> Proud Jewish nose?

9:15 >> Cuz it's distinct It's distinct to their culture. They have a certain nose look, right? But then like how come how come they don't get that pass, but Asians they they get so like >> That's actually a really good point. >> It's like, "Woah, you don't want to keep your ████ slanty ass ████ ass eyes and s███?" >> Your [laughter] ████ mono lids and ████ >> Well, I guess that's kind of the thing where like people don't criticize Beyoncé as hard? >> Yeah? >> When she straight-up looks like a blonde white girl in some of her photos. >> Yeah, with tan She's like a tan blonde white girl. >> [laughter] >> They're wearing like wigs. Like she's not out there with a afro. >> And that's just me saying that like no one really is exempt. Everybody does this and I don't I don't think it truly does take away from like whatever their heritage or whatever position is on it. >> Also, do you feel like anomalies always like there's always somebody who gets a pass? Like a just like a you know, like the

10:05 generic like like any Asian who gets mad at like Wu-Tang for doing like Shaolin 36 Chambers and stuff is like a a loser, >> Right? >> Well, I still think more people are mad at Asians rapping than Asians are mad at Wu-Tang. >> Well, that's what I'm saying though. It's like like you know, well, yes, you're absolutely right about that. >> only like five How many Asian rappers are there though? You know what I mean? They're easy group to pick on. You know, if there was way more of them, if they were more prominent. >> also it just it's hard for it to not sound corny, to be honest, too. It's tough. >> Yeah. But that those are the ones that that you know, you kind of get it though. If you If you're an Asian rapper, you don't sound good and people think your sounds corny, then >> What What the problem >> it is what it is. >> Yeah, because it's it's it's corny, but it still makes millions. Versus like in other communities, the second they're corny, they're done. >> Who's like an Asian rapper that makes millions who's kind of corny though? >> A lot of the I feel like a lot of the ones in Korea

10:56 that make their voice all deep. >> But isn't that isn't that to like the K-pop crowd though? It's like a It's a different crowd. >> that's why the rap like the rap I guess like aficionados of America don't like it because it doesn't get get respect from them. But yet it's getting respect from people that you know, just think that's cool, you know. >> It's kind of like popified, right? So, it's like you're taking this street gritty culture and then you're making it all pop. >> Yeah, it's kind of like what happened with you know, like rock songs of the like the '40s and '50s where like they took it from like black records and they played the whitest version to a white crowd and the white people bought it, but they didn't want to buy the black original. It's the same argument. I get it, you know, but also at the same time, it's free competition of the free world, and kind of that's just how it goes. You know, it's so it's hard to be mad. I get I get both sides though. Cuz in my head

11:47 it's like, if you're if it's another country doing it, there's kind of some it's kind of cool cuz they're like, "Oh, you're taking our cultural currency >> Yeah. >> and making your own version of it." Cuz I I see what I see is people that are hip-hop heads in America that get mad at like the Asian-American rappers who like try to rap. Those are the ones I see where they >> Oh, no, people will be getting very mad at the Asian rappers and the K-pop ████ >> No, no, the Asian rappers like the the straight up >> I didn't even know they did like K-pop rap either. >> Yeah. Wow. >> But then here's where I always end up with with that whole thing is that so they're failing to mention that the top producers and top rappers who are black from America are going overseas sometimes mentoring, sometimes they're the ones writing. So, they're they're collaborating. So, the the peers of that

12:37 level are collaborating. The fans are upset about that. >> Yeah, cuz well, I just know recently with Megan Thee Stallion, she she collabed with that Japanese rapper, the Okanet Kasoku, right? And then the Yuki guy, he's kind of corny. Like, he's not talking about drug dealing. Like, all of his music's about like, "Hey, I'mma go eat with my friends. We're going to get yakisoba." But he just looks hella hood. >> Sounds good though. >> His swag is just hella good, dog. >> Yeah, and he's all tatted up, right? But like, he's actually saying some like teenybopper Nickelodeon rap stuff when you listen to it in Japanese. It just sounds hard. But then like, I don't know if he's cosigned enough to where it he's certified. >> Look at Look at Look at like Rich Chigga though, right? Rich Chigga came out and it was for sure funny. Like, it was like this dude doesn't look the part wearing a fanny pack, right? Like, that's the

13:27 brand, but he sounded hella good. He sounded so good that he ended up collaborating with a bunch of actual artists, black artists, American artists, and stuff like that, because like, when you either one, it's good for your own brand, so you're willing to do it anyway, or you just co-sign it because like, that's tight. Like, that's arguably tight, then like, I think it's okay. So, I mean, when I obviously, this is to a much more like millions of women and probably even men do this surgery uh like >> Yes, cuz none of them can sleep. >> [laughter] >> They all sleep too good.

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