Competition For Jobs, Partners Sparks Height Craze In China
Competition for jobs and marriage partners has sparked a national height craze in China that has people lining up to be surgically stretched or to purchase torture rack-like stretching machines, according to a Local 6 News report.
A senior executive at one of China’s largest job-search Internet sites admits that it’s a commonly-held belief that “taller people will have more opportunity for promotion.”
Reminds me of the movie Gattaca. Creepy.
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Last year, there was a documentation about leg operations in China, it mentioned a survey about it, too. Google search gives a “few hits”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tall+people+will+have+more+money+promotion&btnG=Search , too. It reminds me of popular surgery in South Korea, after women pass a certain age, the eyes are modified to enhance attractiveness.
It reminds me of popular surgery in South Korea, after women pass a certain age, the eyes are modified to enhance attractiveness.
American First Lady Laura Bush had a similar procedure.
Also sounds like an excuse to plug Pedro the Lion‘s song, When They Really Get to Know You They Will Run
i don’t like girls the way they are
so shave their legs
and make them look like movie stars
then we can pretend it’s natural
put on whatever makes you attractive
if it’s not you then do it for the sake of fashion
your friends like a certain you
that’s who you’ve got to be
My mum gets Chinese TV via satellite dish and you wouldn’t believe the crap they try and sell:
- surgical body lengthening
- body stretching implements
- skin whitening
- breast enlargement cream
Watching those commercials you’d think Chinese people were the most superficial in the world !!
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