My heart really goes out to Roseanna. She is a beautiful and intelligent woman who deserves to be valued so much more than she is. I felt embarrassed for her husband, James. Half of what he said did not make any sense---he was stuttering and tripping over his own words again and again, making horrible attempts to lie about racist things that he had said. I hope that Roseanna will keep on being "disobedient" and find a way to remove her children from such a damaging environment. In order to stand up for herself, her beliefs, and her family, she must get away from James.
And as for Brad.....
When I first saw the preview for his segment of the show, I thought he would be a really superficial kind of guy, and I thought that his statement about getting a nose job to make him more "himself" was ridiculous. But after I heard what he had to say, it made sense---his whole life, he has been defined by his nose. It looks like his grandfather's and Brad has even been given nicknames because of his nose. I think that it is okay for him to step out of the shadow (no joke intended) of his nose. It doesn't seem like he would be doing it in order to look like someone else or be a different person or to shed his Italian heritage. Furthermore, Brad's mom seems like a nice lady but I don't think it's fair for her to put any guilt on Brad if he decides to get his nose done---he will still be the same person afterward.
The extent to which popular culture influences our idea of beauty, nationally as well as globally, is very sad. There are so many different ways to define beauty---beauty is relative. I think the message of today's show was that the Western or "American" idea of beauty should not be the dominant one so that people don't feel like they have to change their natural features to attain some narrowly-defined idea of beauty. The root of this issue is the dominance of the Western idea of beauty---people attempting to "erase" their ethnicity is just a symptom.