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A white Brazilian man with blonde hair and blue eyes has taken the extraordinary step of undergoing surgery to look like an Asian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Xiahn, 25, has a love for ‘K-pop’ and Korean dramas and became obsessed with looking like the locals during his time as an exchange student in the country.<\/p>\n

A year at Dongseo University in South Korea gave him the desire to have ‘slanted eyes’ and dark hair.<\/p>\n

‘I put my fingers inside the eye and pulled. That was the way I wanted to have my eyes,’ he told Brazilian newspaper Zero Hora.<\/p>\n

Xiahn underwent more than 10 operations to get the desired look, spending more than $3000 to look remarkably like a natural-born Asian man.<\/p>\n

‘I guess now yes I’m there, I just need to wait for the swelling (to go down) for the end result,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘I was not afraid that something would go wrong, but I was afraid to stay with scarring in the eye and so I did look plastic, but everything worked out. My vision is perfect.<\/p>\n

Originally named Max, the only thing hinting at Xiahn’s former appearance is the shape of his nose.<\/p>\n

Along with surgery to change the shape of his eyes, Xiahn wears dark eye contacts and dyes his hair black.<\/p>\n

Hitting out at criticism, Xiahn said on his Facebook account: ‘Regardless of religion that the person is, whether or not you believe in past lives, you have only this life, you have to be who you want to be.’<\/p>\n

The cultural chameleon has been ‘liked’ thousands of times on Facebook and said he has been fascinated by life in South Korea since he was 19.<\/p>\n

He found surgeons in Brazil to carry out the amazing series of surgeries and said while his father supported his choices, his mother was less understanding.<\/p>\n

‘For me it is normal to change appearance,’ he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source:\u00a0Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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