Plastic Surgery Sign of Progress
On NPR this morning I heard an interesting tidbit of news. Available now to the Middle Class in Iraq are the wonders of plastic surgery. Once a luxury only reserved for the Wealth of Iraq, once a dream for all those who dared to change what genetics gave them, a dream now realized as a reality.
The Plastic Surgeon they interviewed stated quite "matter-a-factly," that it was his feeling the plastic surgery is a sign of progress. Progress = Unhappiness with physical features now fully able to be altered.
What do you think?
The Plastic Surgeon they interviewed stated quite "matter-a-factly," that it was his feeling the plastic surgery is a sign of progress. Progress = Unhappiness with physical features now fully able to be altered.
What do you think?
posted by Vatche @ 1:17 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:18 PM,
Steve said…
I think that plastic surgery is not going to be used as frivolously in Iraq as its use has become here in the US. Here people have plastic surgery for really stupid reasons. Like for stupid shows like "Extreme Makeover".
But in Iraq, they have not gotten to the 'comfortable' point that the US has gotten to (where physical image has become a lot of peoples main concern), where they would go through the pain and expense of surgery for minor physical defects, or for a vain attempt at looking younger.
I think the new availability of plastic surgery to the middle class in Iraq, will be great for people who actually need it. Such as for disfiguring accidents or birth defects.
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