Visitors to South America's first Olympic games are getting an eyeful of the beauty- and fitness-obsessed culture that is synonymous with Rio, a land of muscle-taxing samba dancing, acrobatic capoeira martial arts and dental floss bikinis and Speedos that reveal more than they conceal. It's also the world's second-biggest consumer of plastic surgery, after the United States. And social mobility is directly related to race, meaning that more affluent whites are more likely to have the money for expensive beauty-related measures such as plastic surgery. Pitanguy, dubbed the "philosopher of plastic surgery," often said that helping people look better on the outside made them feel better on the inside. "I do a lot of sports, so I'm in pretty good shape," said Kuenge, a 64-year-old businessman from Switzerland.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 15, 2016 14:48 UTC