Saturday, 23 January 2016
Teeth
Making Japan more exotic that it is, is so visible in pop culture. Hollywood blockbusters such as Memoirs of a Geisha are far from what geishas were really. Practically, nobody knows that geishas blackened their teeth... Anyway, teeth topic in Japan is quite interesting issue. A long time ago in Japan, crooked teeth were highly desirable. In addition - they blacked them. Americans arrived and this habit gone into oblivion. However, in the '90, crooked teeth began again appreciated. Women emancipated. They came back to old traditions. In Japan, we called crooked teeth = yaeba. It was especially canine that were overlaped with dye. To this day clinics offer treatments like buckling teeth. I don't think it's something very different than practices in Europe. European women have also their own manias, injecting exorbitant amounts of acids in your cheeks, lips or breasts ... Are we so different?
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You're right, we may not be different with our acid in the cheeks but still, it seems crazy to blacken your teeth. I've heard also about their obsessive need to have white skin, as tanned skin is to them a symbol of poverty, because only poor people working outside got tanned...at least from what I've heard it's another Japanese obsession
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