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Does this current prominence of Eurasians represent a new acceptance, or is it merely a marketing twist on old racial biases? Many of the VJs on Channel V and MTV look racially mixed only because they have had plastic surgery to change their features. They say they feel pressured to look mixed because Western beauty is still the ideal to many people. Hopefully, in the future, this admiration and acceptance of those with multicultural heritages will deepen, and people will appreciate others, and themselves, regardless of their ethnic background.
現(xiàn)今歐亞混血的聲望,是否代表一種新的包容,或僅是在舊的種族偏見基礎(chǔ)上的市場(chǎng)手段?Channel V和MTV的很多主持人看上去好像是混血兒,這是因?yàn)樗麄兺ㄟ^外科美容手術(shù)改變了面容。他們說由于他們看起來(lái)像混血兒而感到有壓力,因?yàn)槲鞣矫廊诉€是許多人心中的理想。但愿對(duì)多元文化的贊賞與接納,在未來(lái)可望與日俱增,人們會(huì)欣賞別人,也會(huì)欣賞自己,無(wú)論源于哪一個(gè)種族,哪一種背景。
(短文節(jié)選,本篇始于:性命“憂”關(guān) )