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This year’s Miss Universe is in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Last year, 2007, it was the Japanese Royi Mori who made us proud (?) and took the Miss Universe 2007 title.
(Updated : Miss Venezuela Danyana Mendoza was chosen as Miss Universe 2008)
Following are the Asian contestants for Miss Universe 2008 from : China, India, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Miss China – Ziya Wei
Miss India – Simran Kaur Mundi
Miss Indonesia – Putri Raemanasti
Miss Israel – Shunit Faragi
Miss Japan – Hiroko Mima
Miss Korea – Sun Lee
Miss Malaysia – Levy Li Su Lin
Miss Philippines – Jennifer Barrientos
Miss Singapore – Shenise Wong
Miss Thailand – Gavintra Photijak
Miss Vietnam – Lam Thuy Nguyen
I vote for a Chinese or a Korean Miss Universe. How about you?
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cat
| July 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm #
Miss India and Miss Israel are the sexiest ones. I vote for them.
as for the East Asian ones, well, I have to say they are too thin
fiLi
| July 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm #
Cat - I think you’re well adjusted to Israel now
Pierre Lherisson | July 15th, 2008 at 3:54 pm #
Miss universe 2008
This type of contest appears to be fuzzy logic.
1-It is the promotion of decadent behavior. Most country would not tolerate women to attend church,school,work or to walk in the streets with those kind of dresses. Yet is is tolerated during this carnal parade.This is a contradiction.
2-The cannon of beauty has been Euro centric even when the panelist tries to convey an aura of objectivity. Most often than not the winner in those contest even if she is black tend to fit the European cannon of beauty.
It is difficult to come up with objective criteria to compare the beauty of people from different races.
The women at the 2008 beauty contest that was held in Vietnam are truly outstanding in terms of elegance, beauty and so on. I feel that Miss. Angola, Lesiana Pereira or Miss. USA, Crystle Stewart should have been one of the winner.
cat
| July 15th, 2008 at 9:45 pm #
It seems that you do not think I am an Israeli, do you? Why?
fiLi
| July 15th, 2008 at 10:12 pm #
Cat - Heh. I have no idea …