In Vietnam the white-skinned woman thing is horrifying. One sees a lot of lesions forming on the upper cheeks, and some older women only had the fronts of their faces bleached; from the side they are as dark as ever, Plastic nose bridges are commonplace. Even tiny convenience stores selling little more than vegetables and instant noodles have a rack of skin bleaching packets.

I read about one guy who was talking online with a Vietnamese girl; after many months he decided to come out and meet her and prepare to marry. Her parents got all excited and got her surgeries, nose bridge, bleaching. When the guy arrived at the airport and she came running to the gate to meet her paramour he didn't recognize her, and when she explained he went back to the ticket counter and got the first return flight he could get.