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Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth

The Body

The Body follows the emotional journeys of ethnic minorities desperate to change their bodies, as well as showing incredible surgery including pioneering limb lengthening procedures.

Michael Jackson’s radical facial transformation was shrouded in secrecy and became a contentious subject for discussion.

Part of the Race: Science’s Last Taboo season, these programmes examine the emerging trend for deracialisation surgery through the stories of six people who want to westernise their bodies and faces. The film also interviews the surgeons willing to make their dreams come true.

Whether it’s a more Caucasian nose, longer legs, wider eyes, or even less body hair, plastic surgery and science are making anything possible. The programme asks whether it is right to want to erase your inherited ethnic features to fit in to a predominantly white society.

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  • Brigitte

    Just wondering when the next episode of this series will be uploaded?

  • http://www.documentarystorm.com Jonas

    I’m still trying to locate the second episode “The Face”, but had no luck so far.

    Channel 4 has it uploaded on YouTube, but it is restricted from being viewed by most countries.

  • bog

    the face

    • http://www.documentarystorm.com Jonas

      Awesome, thanks bog!

  • pirat

    hy, very interesting,

    if full screen does not work just copy the embedded link in your browser. should work in full screen sort of.

    http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshhbwgeAR5mddmM0c3m

  • anurse

    “I wasn’t thinking about dying, I was just thinking ‘Don’t make me ugly’. She says her nose makes her look more wealthy and people will give her a lot more respect??? That says it all as far as Jet is concerned, not much on the inside there. Very, very sad. I hope she never gets breast cancer.

  • jph

    Some of us can only wish to have a cultural history as rich as yours.

    • Maestra Sierra

      You’re kidding right? Every culture and society has deep rooted rich culture and history… it depends how far you are whiling to study of those cultures and societies… so don’t let the PC schools brain wash you into thinking otherwise. The earliest history of humans in Europe is 45,000 yrs ago… earliest record of humans in the Americas is 12,000 to 16,000 yrs ago… there is rich culture in those places too… >_> I refuse to believe that the history of the Americas started when Christopher Columbus “discovered” it. It’s too bad that the deep rooted history of those cultures and societies aren’t being taught or included in the books due to overtly sensitive PC f^cks and the popularity of demonizing white history due to slavery and cultural indoctrination (famously called colonialism)…those practices have been around forever! It didn’t start in Spain as the retards in high school history has tried to indoctrinate us all into believing. >_>

  • Maestra Sierra

    Larger breasts,… larger penis… less body hair… smaller breasts… being taller… etc these aren’t about changing ones race as it is with following the ideal of universal beauty, which is being slim, tall, hairless beings with perfect bodies. The only one I see from this series … at least from the two episodes that came out… that has anything to do with changing ones race is the lady with the nose problem… to her it’s a nose problem, to me her nose looks normal. Then again we all have parts to which we like to change one way or another. I would like to have an hour glass figure and the only way to have that is through lipo-ing all the fat out of my waist because I have tiny hips.

    Moving along to the other parts of this documentary series… I don’t know any western world guy who wants to be with a woman whose breasts are at the level of her belly button… nor do I know any man who would want to go out with a woman who is flat chested….. and I definitely don’t know any man who would go out with a hairy woman. … especially not the superficial men of the western countries like the United States and Great Britain.

    Seriously lets be realistic here… this isn’t about race as oppose to how shallow these western, Euro-centric societies have become when it comes to looks…. next thing you’re going to tell me that I’m going against my Cuban background because I’m losing weight and reshaping myself into a slim healthy body (many Hispanic societies believe chubby women are beautiful and symbolize good health)… get the f^ck outta here! Racial identity is more than just looks… F^CK! There are black albinos living in tribal communities in certain countries in the continent of Africa… they have bright blue eyes, extremely pale skin (whiter than even some of the whitest Europeans) with platinum blonde hair…and these retards are going to tell me these albino blacks aren’t blacks because of the way they look? People need to go back to basic f^cking biology…seriously!!! You can change the leopards spots all you want, but you can NEVER change its nature or its DNA, so this idea of deracialization or whatever its called is BS.

    I would love these people to show some white people who are de-racializing themselves because more whites are enlarging their butts and lips to have them like that of black and hispanic women… oh no but they don’t call that deracializing…again… get the f^ck outta here with that. >_>

  • Lisa

    This documentary is soo full of SH*T. If all these people are going changing their bodies to be caucasian then white people are tanning cause they want to be black

    People are change their looks to live up to the ideal beauty standards portrayed in magazines and idolized by models. That’s all.

    • Maestra Sierra

      I agree full heartily. Good to see I’m not alone at seeing the BS of this doc.

    • Jeremy

      Completely with you. There are plenty of white people with wide noses, big/non-existent breasts, small penises (wouldn’t penis enlargement be trying to be black?), lots of body hair and short stature. In the same token there are plenty of non-white people who have these “ideal white attributes”. What could have been an interesting documentary about plastic surgery in general becomes completely nonsenical with the unnecessary racial slant.

      Also the implications that Michael Jackson had anything other than vitilogo are unbelievably stupid- I fail to know anyone in history who has gone from black to white without that disease and without the aid of chemical burns.

  • Quixie

    Jet is an extremely beautiful moron.

  • Jeremy

    “There are no guidelines in the UK governing how far surgeons can alter ethnic features as long is it is safe and the patient is making an informed choice”

    Why does the tone of how that is said imply that there should be? That would be the most ridiculous thing, having a government policy banning people from getting nose jobs because noses are “ethnic features”. This documentary in general is stupid, as the end results of these surgeries aren’t even inherently white.