In Flushing, Queens, surgeons has its attention trained metres above, in whose noses that Chinese patients want to bend down. Russian women in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, have their breasts enlarged, while Koreans in Chinatown have simplified lines of jaw.
As the demand for surgical enhancement explodes all over the world, New York has developed a series of niche markets that allow the city many immigrants to tummy tucks and settings that are carefully adapted to their cultural preferences and the ideals of beauty. As you can find Lebanese vine leaves or bowls of Vietnamese pho to taste of home, immigrants can locate surgeons capable of recreating the neckline of Thal?a, Mexican singer or the bright eyes of Lee Hyori, the Korean pop star.
You can also find a growing number of physicians offering plans Layaway to help them pay the operations. If the price is still too high, illegal surgery by unlicensed practitioners is available in many neighborhoods.
As these clinics remodel Asian eyelids and silhouettes of Latin, provide a perspective of level of pore in the aspirations and the uncertainties of the 21st New York century immigrants: a portrait in mosaic buffer with Botox.
"When a patient comes from a particular ethnic origin and of a certain age, we know what to look for," said Dr. Kaveh Alizadeh, President of the plastic surgical group of Long Island, which has three clinics in the city. "We're kind of amateur sociologists".
Dr. Alizadeh, himself an immigrant from Iran, admits that the results may look less like science of as stereotypes. Even so, he and other doctors working in ethnic communities say that they can analyze their appointment books and recognize unmistakable trends: many Egyptians are getting face lifts. Many Italians are reshaping their knees. Dr. Alizadeh said his Iranian fellow favour nose jobs.
And there is no questioning the increase in demand in the neighborhoods of immigrants, where Mandarin and Arabic are spoken in the operating room and the range of patients age "of 18 to 80", as a doctor put it.
Some 750,000 Asians in the United States suffered cosmetic surgery procedures less invasive work as injections of Botox, in 2009, approximately 5 per cent of the population of Asia and more than double the number in the year 2000, according to projections by the American plastic surgeons society. Among Latinos, the number was of 1.4 million, nearly 3 percent of the population and the increase of a triple of nine years earlier. In 2009, about 4 percent of whites had cosmetic work.
In New York, opening new clinics in enclaves of immigrants, and have expanded the existing practices to maintain demand.
Extreme makeover is, in many ways, a tradition among immigrants from the city. A century ago, in the early days of cosmetic surgery, European Jews suffered nose jobs and Irish immigrants their ears pinned back in attempts to find "more American", said Victoria Pitts-Taylor, a Professor of sociology at Queens College who has written about popular attitudes of plastic surgery.
"Most of these operations were directed to issues of assimilation", said Ms. Pitts-Taylor.
Today, the motivations are as varied and complex procedures. Instead of fighting to adjust to their new country, many migrants themselves remodeling trends and tastes of his home in the culture.
"My patients are proud of Hispanic appearance," said Dr. Jeffrey S. Yager, that speaks Spanish and the size of your Office has tripled since opened in 1997 in Washington Heights, a Dominican largely to neighborhood of Manhattan. "I do not understand that patients who want to hide their ethnicity".
While clinics that are advertised in the local Russian, Spanish and Chinese has much in common with them and with the nonimmigrants serve, everyone wants a belly and a soft front - their business strategies are as different as the languages spoken by their patients.
Dr. Holly j. Berns, an anesthesiologist, feels as if she is in a rocker when he travels from Office of Dr. Yager to suburban clinics. In Long Island, he said, "they are doing everything we can to get the fat in their buttocks." In Washington Heights, "is the opposite: that just want their ends enlarged and rounded butt."
Italy Vigniero, 27, a Dominican of Dr. Yager, received patient breast implants in 2008 and is considering a lift of buttocks to achieve, as it was called, "the silhouette of a woman".
"Us Latinas define with our bodies," said. "We have always curves."
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