The culturally loaded issue today is the number of Asians looking to remake themselves to look more Caucasian(高加索人). It's a charge many 1 , although few would argue that under the relentless 2 of Hollywood, satellite TV, and Madison Avenue, Asia's aesthetic ideal has changed drastically. "Beauty, after all, is evolutionary," says Nancy Etcoff, the author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty --- not 3 a best seller in Japan, Korea, and China. Asians are increasingly asking their surgeons for wider eyes, longer noses and fuller breasts--- feature not typical 4 the race. To accommodate such demands, surgeons in the region have had to invent 5 techniques. The No.1 procedure in Asia is a form of belpharoplasty, in which a crease is created above the eye by scalpel or by needly and thread; in the U.S., blepharoplasty also 6 near the top, 7 involves removing bags and fat around the eys. 8 , Westerners use botox to diminish wrinkles--- while in Korea and Japan, botox is injected into wide cheeks so the muscle will atrophy and the cheeks will 9 . Just as Asian 10 require unique procedures, their bodies demand innovative operations to ahieve the leggy, skinny, busty Western ideal that has become increasingly universal.