Messages By: rianashley

You are very pretty.

You are missing my point. My point is if a person is ashamed of their ethnicity and they get plastic surgery solely for the purpose, then this says don't love who they are. I said another culture meaning some people from another culture. I did not mean to suggest a whole group. My point it I can see where someone from another culture would be offended.

Also I don't look at people that way so I guess maybe I am just different. When I hear and see the word symmetry and view from an artistic perspective, I think perfectly the same on both side. In art classes the painting and visual pieces that were asymmetrical were always deemed the most interesting when critiqued by my teachers and the students. So maybe artists see things a little differently. There are different ways of seeing.

Also, since we were talking about symmetry, I'd like to add this. I am considered very attractive and get hit on all the time by men of all different races, and my face is in no way symmetrical. So the symmetry studies may be true in most instances but the findings haven't applied in my case.

It is not good for us to think that many Asians are somehow inherently more intelligent than non-Asians

when the truth is that if the majority of  people put the same amount of time in learning studying in as many Asians have been taught to do, then the majority of non-Asian people would be just as intelligent too.

This also works in a harmful way too. I heard an Asian-American female say that she hated growing up with the stigma that somehow Asians were smarter. She said in her math class at school, the teachers always expected her to have the correct answers and always looked for her to be the first to solve the math problems. The irony of it all, was that she hated math and wasn't good at math so this really annoyed her. It also made the other students begin to resent her because the teachers immediately assumed when she first came to class that she was smarter just because she was Asian.

I can also remember in a college class that I was taking where we were given an math assignment that would be due at the end of class and one of the Asian students as well as a 2 other students copied my friend's answers. When we all got our grades back my friend ended up being livid. My friend asked everyone what grade they received. The other 2 students who copied her answers received a grade of C just as she had because some of her answers were wrong. The Asian student received an A.  My friend and the rest of the students in class then assumed that the teacher didn't even bother to look at the Asian student's answers and just assumed that they were correct. I really don't know if this is what the teacher's thinking was but this is what the rest of the class thought.