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    <title><![CDATA[Comments on: Of Beauty Pageants and Plastic Surgery]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[So you signed up for that beauty pageant and naively thought that swimsuit competitions had been outlawed due to sexist issues?  Not so... Listen to this podcast and get the Mandarin Chinese terminology you're going to need for that boob job.  Heck, you might as well get a nose job too while you're at it -- you'll swing a better price here when you operate in bulk.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2007-10-01 18:00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: luobinzhenmei]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19175]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[luobinzhenmei]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[隆鼻isn't what Westerners get when they get nose jobs. What is the phrase for making noses smaller?  让短鼻? Or isn't there such an expression in Chinese?  After all there isn't really an expression in English for "having plastic surgery so that your nose has a high bridge that glasses will stay on。"]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[隆鼻isn't what Westerners get when they get nose jobs. What is the phrase for making noses smaller?  让短鼻? Or isn't there such an expression in Chinese?  After all there isn't really an expression in English for "having plastic surgery so that your nose has a high bridge that glasses will stay on。"]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: henning]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19178]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't get the "double / inner / triple eyelid" thing at all. Can anybody enlighten me what this is all about?

What is a "double eyelid" and why would one want to get rid of it?]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I don't get the "double / inner / triple eyelid" thing at all. Can anybody enlighten me what this is all about?

What is a "double eyelid" and why would one want to get rid of it?]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: laolong]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19179]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[laolong]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is that another picture of our teacher Jenny?]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Is that another picture of our teacher Jenny?]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: Kyle]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19182]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[Kyle]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[@ luobinzhenmei 

Any type of nose job is technically referred to in English as rhinoplasty, which includes, but is not limited to, making the nose smaller, larger, thiner, thicker, etc.  

"Rhinoplasty" in Chinese is 鼻整形术 (bi2zheng3xing2shu4).]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[@ luobinzhenmei 

Any type of nose job is technically referred to in English as rhinoplasty, which includes, but is not limited to, making the nose smaller, larger, thiner, thicker, etc.  

"Rhinoplasty" in Chinese is 鼻整形术 (bi2zheng3xing2shu4).]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hi henning,

>  double/inner/triple eyelid..

You might as well ask 
your wife about those terms
only if you're brave enough to do so.
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi henning,

>  double/inner/triple eyelid..

You might as well ask 
your wife about those terms
only if you're brave enough to do so.
]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: HannahIm]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19187]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Henning, I'm in Korea and the double-eyelid thing is a big deal here. People consider that "Asian" eyes are "single-eyelid" and Western eyes are "double-eyelid." Seems like lots of women, even men, are trying to get double-eyelids.  Even the Korean president is reputed to have had plastic surgery on his eyes. Honestly, I can hardly tell the difference before and after, but people seems to think it makes their eyes look larger. Go figure. . .]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Henning, I'm in Korea and the double-eyelid thing is a big deal here. People consider that "Asian" eyes are "single-eyelid" and Western eyes are "double-eyelid." Seems like lots of women, even men, are trying to get double-eyelids.  Even the Korean president is reputed to have had plastic surgery on his eyes. Honestly, I can hardly tell the difference before and after, but people seems to think it makes their eyes look larger. Go figure. . .]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: dave]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please kill this beauty pageant series and send all the characters to hell. Thanks. ]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Please kill this beauty pageant series and send all the characters to hell. Thanks. ]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: guanrg2007]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19190]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[that doesn't make their eyes look larger ,but more beautiful or good looking
i am chinese so i know what they are thinking about geting double-eyelids]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[that doesn't make their eyes look larger ,but more beautiful or good looking
i am chinese so i know what they are thinking about geting double-eyelids]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/of-beauty-pageants-and-plastic-surgery/discussion#comment-19191]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[changye]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[The word 人造美女 
makes me bring up the image
of a cyborg such as The Bionic Woman.

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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[The word 人造美女 
makes me bring up the image
of a cyborg such as The Bionic Woman.

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        <title><![CDATA[By: mark]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Stepford wives perhaps, rather than the bionic woman.]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Stepford wives perhaps, rather than the bionic woman.]]></content:encoded>
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