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There’s a lot traditionally passed down through Asian families: culture includes; beliefs, customs as well as the language. Consequently, the level of pressure to be thin is also reported to be on the list of priorities for Asian American women. 
 
For instance, the Reditt post or thread entitled: Asian moms and their terrible body image issues. 
 
“I was always told that I was too fat, but at the same time my mom shows her love through food and is always shoving food at me,” a user said. Next up, the Cold Tea Collective which worked on an article about how to confront fat-shaming in an Asian family. Thick Dumpling Skin on Tumblr is a blogging platform that features blogs on body image which provides the “voice for hungry Asian people. ” 
 
Published on Wednesday, a new study conducted by PLOS ONE investigates those early embedded East Asian beauty norms, as well as the expectations giant White women are provided by Western social networks. Measures of state body image based on women’s positive feelings regarding their body were obtained and it was found out that both Chinese and white western women more prefer thin bodies than the black Nigerian women. 
 
The particular groups that were surveyed are global to offer diverse experiences and the study indicates that those who are minorities are not well represented in existing literature. 
 
Overall, the present study also revealed Chinese women felt pressure from own family regarding their looks, while White Western women felt pressure from the social media platform. Although the research does not actually focus on the Chinese American women it can be seen that for the group the pressures are actually double. 
 
“You almost would have it bad from both ways,” Louise Hanson, one of the authors of the given study, shared with the NBC News. 
 
Scarlett Hao is a plus-size fashion influencer based in the U. S. born in mainland China but migrated to the U. S. as a teenager, she revealed that she experienced very early pressure from parents, teachers, and peers to slim down and consequently started a long battle with an eating disorder. She added that Chinesse beauty requirements have not evolved at all. 
 
“That is why I pride myself in not setting myself up for failure by following the current beauty standard, Hao continued. ” “It is people and they maintain the old beauty standard that is why everyone is still using the old standard to judge you. ” 
 
Hanson said that one of the reasons could be that Chinese women are most likely to feel pressure from family and friend could be that than-most-East-Asian families have meals together than families in other cultures. Thus, Chinese women engage in more adaptive pathways when it comes to things such as portions with their families, and there is limited body appreciation. 
 
However, peer pressure does not stem solely from direct comments; the actions of the loved ones also have an impact on the woman’s body appreciation. “If the friend speaks something negative about their bodies like saying, ‘I must eat so much today’, then it impacts you, as well,” Hanson added. 
 
Culture of thinness is introduced to be generational in nature in Chinese culture based on this study. Chinese women described thin identity internalization over their life span, whereas white Western women’s perception of thinness as the ideal reduced with age. 
 
Research has also conducted the internalization of this thin standard in Chinese woman is related to this ‘‘body as currency,’’ Hanson Essentially, this seems to argue that the slim body is ideal as it open doors to the better socioeconomic life by attracting male partners. 
 
One Reddit user summed it up on the basis of body shaming by the Asian parents, by saying that it was ‘ unwanted advices. ’ ‘I think its at least somewhat tied to the concept of respect your elders, for your parents, they provided you life, and they own your body,’ the user said. 
 
Peer pressure combined with the influence of the media appears to create a conduit through which thinness is both vouched for by ones friends as well as promoted by the ever alert media amongst Chinese women in the western world. The white western women recognised media pressure as higher, and had the lowest body appreciation of all the categories. 
 
However, Hanson said that one of the most shocking findings of the research was that despite the fact that Chinese women experienced most pressure in that aspect, they still had a higher body appreciation rate as compared to the WHITE WESTERN FEMALE SUBJECTS. 
 
Hao mentioned that upon beginning her exploration of social media in the U. S. early in 2015, she was warmly embraced by plus-size women’s affirmative online community. She said the U. S. market was much better at targeting plus-size women than China, in which she could hardly find anything beautiful that would fit her. “Once you are above a certain weight you have very little choice and all the options you are left with are to dress very simply and in what is essentially plain, dowdy clothing. ” 
 
Now, however, Hao feels that post-Covid which they are living in the U. S. , people are becoming more conscious of their health, and thus taking up a narrative that being plus-sized is unhealthy. 
 
This is not however to claim that the level of body appreciation among Nigerian women is the highest as suggested by the PLOS ONE study. White Western and Chinese women are subjected to more thin idealization than Nigerian women, and the body size that is considered ideal in several African countries is bigger than that in China and western countries. 
 
However, Hanson said, western media is today transforming the worldwide standard. “Yes, there is this introduction of the western media and as that floods the market, the corresponding size of the perfect body globally is getting slimmer,” she said. 
 
To some Nigerian American women, the culture and expectations embodied in the thinness of America for blacks are not in consonance with what is expected of a Nigerian woman. Hanson stated that Nigeria is generally less negative when it comes to body image and that African values for fuller body type serve as a buffer against negative body image. 
 
Nigerian American women who get introduced to this thin-ideal from Western media however, may start to experience pressures from both the media and their peers that is not present in Nigeria. 
 
“It is just through exposure: You are just walking down the street, and the next thing you are seeing adverts of these models who are very thin,” she said. “All your options are somewhat affected by your family, no matter how protective they may be. ”