
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


For the longest time, Western beauty has been celebrated. The desire and pressure to look more 'Western' has led to skin whitening products, nose jobs and double eyelid surgery. But the tide is turning. Celebrities like the Kardashians are leaning into an ethnically ambiguous aesthetic.
Is this cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation? What do people of colour, who've often been racially vilified for their appearance, have to say about others cherry-picking their features?
By ABC4.4
3232 ratings
For the longest time, Western beauty has been celebrated. The desire and pressure to look more 'Western' has led to skin whitening products, nose jobs and double eyelid surgery. But the tide is turning. Celebrities like the Kardashians are leaning into an ethnically ambiguous aesthetic.
Is this cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation? What do people of colour, who've often been racially vilified for their appearance, have to say about others cherry-picking their features?

101 Listeners

120 Listeners

64 Listeners

1,742 Listeners

800 Listeners

774 Listeners

129 Listeners

25 Listeners

65 Listeners

156 Listeners

314 Listeners

900 Listeners

42 Listeners

135 Listeners

12 Listeners

193 Listeners

118 Listeners

169 Listeners

235 Listeners

1,004 Listeners

64 Listeners

9 Listeners

110 Listeners