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| Making an appearance here to show y'all this:
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| "most other races cannot tell that I am wearing colored contacts.
They always ask me, “What’s the other half of your ethnicity?”
or “Which one’s Asian, your father or your mother?” To this I proudly
smile and say: “I’m 100 percent Korean.” Even then, colored contacts
are the last thing that crosses their minds as they say: “Wow,
I have never met an Asian girl with grey eyes.” I almost enjoy
the fact that they have a difficult time guessing my ethnicity,
not because I am ashamed in any way of being Korean, but because
I know it will alter their stereotypes of how not just Korean women
but Asian women in general are supposed to look. Why should we
allow Hollywood’s “Oriental” stereotype of slanted dark eyes, defined
cheekbones and tiny lips define what is beautiful or “exotic?”
Not everyone is a Lucy Liu. Not everyone wants to be a Lucy Liu.
During the past five years that I have been wearing colored contacts,
I’ve gotten various feedback, all the way from “I’ve never seen
prettier eyes” to “They look like dead fish eyeballs.” The negative
comments are usually from first-generation Korean parents and relatives
who assign the value of beauty to our natural God-given brown eyes.
They challenge me, saying, “Why are you trying to change what God
gave you?” But don’t we color our hair, work out at the gym, diet,
go to tanning salons, get manicures and pedicures, not to mention
even get plastic surgery? Colored contacts are just one of the
many ways of expressing individuality, fashion sense and the desire
to be beautiful, which I believe is innate to all human beings.
In wearing colored contacts, I don’t mean to cover up or conceal
my natural eye color, let alone my identity; if truly “your eyes
are the windows to your soul,” my intention is just to add some
color to my soul." http://www.audreymagazine.com/Sep2006/SpeakUp.asp
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