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Students Get Facelifts For Passing Exams

#1 Postby southerngale » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:02 am

Hong Kong (dpa) - Parents in the wealthy southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have been rewarding their children with cosmetic surgery when they pass their high school exams, a news report said Tuesday.

Girls are being given nose jobs and work around their eyes while boys have operations to cut out excess fat as a treat for winning places in university at the end of secondary school, according to the South China Morning Post.

The newspaper said cosmetic surgeries reported that 90 per cent of operations carried out last week were on high school graduates who passed university entrance exams last week.

Guangzhou, formerly Canton, is the capital of the wealthy Guangdong province neighbouring Hong Kong and is one of the richest cities in China.

Cosmetic surgery has boomed in popularity in the city in the past decade.
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#2 Postby JCT777 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:07 pm

Very unusual, but an interesting concept.
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#3 Postby rainstorm » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:21 pm

wouldnt it be easier to put bags over their heads?
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#4 Postby rainstorm » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:22 pm

thats what my mom did with me(so i wouldnt scare my parents friends that came to visit)
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#5 Postby JCT777 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:36 pm

LOL, rs! :lol: But I have seen your pic in the gallery - you certainly don't need to put a bag over your head. :angel:
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#6 Postby David » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:47 pm

That's China for you, they better watch out for SARS if they don't use another scalpel! :roll:
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#7 Postby coriolis » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:21 pm

Hmmm.
They're getting cosmetic surgery and we shop at Dollar Stores, buying Chinese products. Something wrong with this picture.
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#8 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:28 pm

Ed, but they passed their exams. :lol:
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#9 Postby coriolis » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:37 pm

Which is more than we can say for a lot of americans, I hate to say.
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#10 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:39 pm

That's true. Then there are those of us who are (or were) average to above average students who don't always test well and are very intelligent.
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