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本帖最后由 dyunqing 于 2010-7-20 13:45 编辑
【中文标题】印度学生整形忙
【原文标题】Indian students flock to plastic surgery to get ahead
【登载媒体】英国卫报
【来源地址】http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/india-students-plastic-surgery
【译者】 dyunqing
【翻译方式】人工
【声明】 本翻译供Anti-CNN使用，未经AC或译者许可，不得转载。
【原文库链接】http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-255581-1-1.html
【译文】
Jason Burke in Delhi
贾森·伯克，德里报道
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 18 July 2010 18.05 BST
卫报网，星期天，2010.7.18，18：05 英国夏令时
Students seek information regarding admission forms at Delhi University.
Photograph: Mail Today/India Today Group/Getty Images
德里大学，在录取表上寻找信息的学生
摄影：今日邮报/今日印度集团/华盖创意图片社
印度学生整形忙
德里的整形专家表示，为了在大学给人留下不错的第一印象，许多年轻人热衷于整形
现在是德里大学的新生周，再过几天，几千名新生将涌入这个神圣的有着红红的地面、绿绿的草坪的印度首都最著名的大学。Pooja Singh 已经把一切准备好了：书、文件、钢笔，还有上个月刚做的右颊的酒窝。
“大学生活要开始了，我一点也不紧张。我将以一幅新面貌和新的自信出现在那里。”这名22岁的女孩说，“个性虽然重要，但当你第一次见到别人时，起作用的是你的相貌和表现。所以明显的，每个人都想要看起来更漂亮。”
Singh的父母花了35,000卢比（500英镑）给她做手术，她不是唯一的，虽然缺乏数据，但德里的整形专家表示，成百上千的中学生有这样的需求，他们为了在新生周给人留下不错的第一印象，愿意做任何事，包括动刀子。
“这股风潮是最近兴起的，始于五月，因为新学期七月份开始。”Cocoona国际中心的Amit Gupta医生说，Amit Gupta是首都附近不断增多的的整形医生之一。“我收到很多电话咨询，最终一个月内做了8、9例手术。如果乘以这个城市的诊所数量，你会发现，总数量相当庞大。”
大多数顾客是女性，她们最喜欢的项目包括丰唇、瘦颊、还有鼻子整形。偶尔也有男性，抽脂是最常见的项目。“我去做减胸，因为学校的朋友老取笑我。”Bhanu Singh, 19岁, 这样告诉今日邮报。
益普索调查公司德里地区主管 B Narayanaswamy 说，这股潮流是由电影电视明星推动的，因为很多明星都坦率的承认曾做过美容手术。另一个因素是为了争取少数好工作而面对的激烈竞争。“你得发挥一切有利的因素。相对于才能，更重要的是人际网络。你要交正确的朋友，去正确的聚会，争取一切可能的机会。”Narayanaswamy说，“如果你有钱通过整形使自己获利，你当然应该这么做。”
上周有个新闻，在Facebook的印度用户中，一家护肤品公司开展了一项“让你在网络变得更白”的活动，这引起了很大的争议。其实，美白霜的使用是很普遍的。而美容手术，虽然相对较新，但是在印度却是一个蓬勃发展的产业。因为费用比欧美低很多，越来越多的外国人来印度做手术。一些观察家担忧，虽然对印度不断增长的中产阶级来说，今天做手术的还是少数，但未来美容手术可能被广泛地接受。
本周将开始商科课程的Sunayna Gupta，今年19岁，目标是完成MBA。她最近花了35,000卢比在眉毛上。“漂亮就是一切。你得面对很多主要通过容貌来评判你的人。”Gupta说，“作为印度今天的年轻人，最困难的事情就是拥有自信和美貌。”
Indian students flock to plastic surgery to get ahead
Specialists in Delhi report hundreds of inquiries from young people keen to make a good first impression at university
It is freshers' week at Delhi University. In a few days' time, and thousands of new students will flood the hallowed red sandstone floors and grassy lawns of the Indian capital's best known institution of further education. Pooja Singh has everything ready for her first day at college: her books, files, pens and a new dimple, created on her right cheek by a plastic surgeon last month.
"I'm not nervous about starting college. I'm going with a new look and a new confidence," the 22-year-old said.
"Personality is important but when you first meet someone it is how you look and how you present yourself that counts. So obviously everyone wants to look beautiful."
Singh, whose parents paid 35,000 rupees (£500) for her operation, is not alone. Hard data is scant, but specialists in Delhi report hundreds of inquiries from middle-class students who want to have done everything possible to make a good first impression in their first week, including going under the knife.
"It's only really taken off recently. The rush starts in May because term starts in July," said Dr Amit Gupta, of Cocoona International Centre, one of a growing number of plastic surgeons practising in or around the capital. "I get dozens of telephone calls and end up doing eight or nine operations a month. Multiplied across all the clinics in the city you are looking at a pretty major amount."
Most of the clients are women, and favoured procedures include lip enlargement, reduction of a double chin, and nose surgery. For the occasional men, fat removal from the chest is the most frequent operation. "I went for male breast reduction because my school friends made fun of me," Bhanu Singh, 19, told the Mail Today newspaper.
B Narayanaswamy, Delhi-based director of market researchers Ipsos, said the trend was driven by the example set by role models on television and in films, many of whom increasingly are honest about undergoing cosmetic surgery. A second factor was the ferocious competition in contemporary India for the small number of prized jobs.
"You get any possible advantage you can. So much depends on networks, not merit, that you need to make the right friends, go to the right parties and get the opportunities you might otherwise not get," Narayanaswamy said. "If you have the money to pay for getting that advantage then you do."
Last week the news that Facebook users in India were being urged to make themselves appear whiter online, as part of a marketing campaign by a skincare company, caused a big row. The use of whitening creams is common.
Cosmetic surgery, although relatively new, is a boom industry in India, with an increasing number of foreigners seeking operations at a fraction of the cost in Europe or America. Some observers fear that, although exceptional today, such surgery could become broadly accepted among India's growing middle classes.
Nineteen-year-old Sunayna Gupta, who will start a course in commerce this week and hopes to go on to complete an MBA, recently paid 35,000 rupees for work on her eyebrows.
"Beauty is everything. You have to face so many people and they judge you, especially your face," Gupta said. "If you are young in India today the hardest thing is to have confidence and to be good-looking." |
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