What do Indigenous Bolivians and Jewish Princesses have in common?

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Nose jobs are all the rage amongst the indigenous population of Bolivia, with bargain basement prices. All this in trying to conform to a European (Non-Jewish) standard of beauty.


BBC News - Cheap nose jobs change the face of Bolivia

n Bolivia, plastic surgery campaigns are encouraging indigenous people to embrace nose jobs to change their looks, and apparently with some success.

It is 3pm in the plastic surgeon's office and Juan Carlos Calamar, 19, is about to enter the operating theatre.

"I want to have a better image, to avoid other peoples' mockery when they make fun of my nose," he says.

"For me it is something serious. People discriminate against me a lot 'there goes the big-nosed', they say. Others like me also feel discriminated against," Juan Carlos says.

For some, such surgery goes against the whole idea of indigenous pride encouraged by the country's first indigenous leader, Evo Morales.
 
Skin bleaching creams are very popular in some countries too.
 
The money would be better spent on a copy of Steve Martin's "Roaxanne" and a degree at some community college.
 
And plastic surgery to reduce eyelid folds is becoming more popular too.
 

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