If I were, for instance, half Iranian, would I have one half Iranian values and one half decadent, western ones? What if I was one-half bourgeois? Then would I only have half of my nose operated on? Please enlighten me. On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:26 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> puhlease. they are members of a class that can afford the surgery.
> of course, whatever their values are, they can't possibly be
> authentically iranian. obviously, the penchant for nose jobs could
> only errupt for a class that seeks to "gain material or social
> priviliges he or she perceives as deserving due to his or her
> special accomplishments/characteristics."
>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-
> Mon-20090615/008703.html
>
> At 05:08 PM 6/30/2009, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>> At 01:54 PM 6/30/2009, wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>>
>>> She also codirected a quite good documentary called Divorce,
>>> Iranian Style.
>>
>>
>> Sundance is running Nose, Iranian Style. I saw it last night:
>>
>> A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary that raises
>> unsettling questions about human nature and contemporary Iranian
>> society, "Nose Iranian Style" is about Iran leading the world in
>> the number of nose jobs per year, currently estimated at
>> 60,000-70,000.
>>
>>
>> School girls, but also boys, look forward to their nose
>> operations, which they hope will make them attractive to the
>> opposite sex. Model noses are found in Western fashion mags, but
>> Michael Jackson is also cited. Entire families follow the cookie-
>> cutter fashion, rarely motivated by any real need. Possible
>> reasons behind this rhinoplasty epidemic are the emphasis that
>> scarves and hijabs put on women's faces, and a general feeling of
>> loss of identity among the younger generation. Oskouei and his
>> editors wisely let the patients and surgeons speak for themselves
>> with minimal comment.
>>
>> http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930785.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
>>
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