CHINA performs more cosmetic surgery than any country except America and Brazil

China, Brazil and the USA perform more plastic surgery thank any other country! Maybe you are thinking that this is due to the wealth of these countries, but according the Forbes this is not the case. It seems that inequality is the reason more people, specifically women go under the knife. According to the article, poor good looking women have a better chance at equality in the patriarchal world we live in. Read the article below for more information.

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China, Brazil, USA Lead For Plastic Surgery: Why?

I thought this was an interesting little point that The Economist’s made, that China, Brazil and the US are the leading countries for plastic surgery:

To me the interesting question is why? Sure, they’re three countries with large populations but they’re higher on the rates of surgery as well, not just the total number.

It’s not the general level of wealth as there are much richer countries than Brazil or China with lower levels of such surgery.

The most interesting answer I think was suggested some time ago by Tyler Cowen. It’s the inequality.

All three are very unequal countries by the standards of the rest of the world. And, most patriarchal though it may sound, almost misogynistic, one way for the poorer to make the leap from poor to rich is by marrying up. This is obviously more achievable for women than it is for men, given human mating habits. But poor good looking women do have an opportunity to make the leap across that equality chasm in a way that not good looking poor women or almost all poor men do not.

Thus we might not be all that surprised at such low wage good lookers using a little bit of aid from the surgeon’s knife to increase their potential success at making this leap.

That was, as I recall it, Cowens’ potential explanation about the prevalence in Brazil at least: and I’d say that seeing that the top three countries are also the top three most unequal just bolsters his case.