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The 2009 Miss Universe Pageant is held at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. Following our annual routine, we take a quick look at this year’s global perceptions of Asian beauty through the national contestants. Last year’s (2008) Miss Universe was Miss Venezuela Danyana Mendoza, and it was Miss Japan that made Asian beauty proud in 2007.
Following are the Asian contestants for Miss Universe 2009.
Indonesia – Zivanna Letisha Siregar
Philippines – Bianca Manalo
Vietnam – Hoang Yen Vo
Singapore – Rachel Kum
Japan – Emiri Miyasaka
Korea – Rina
China – Wang Jingyao
Malaysia – Joannabelle Ng
Thailand – Chutima Durongdej
Anything that strikes you as different or interesting in the national contestants for the East Asian countries participating?
(Anyways, I say… Indonesia, how about you?)
Compare this to previous years in :
Nitzan | August 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm #
what a beauty!
Ushitora | August 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm #
Miss. Universe is a shame! HOw come no Asian made it on the top 15??
archeryRich | August 25th, 2009 at 2:19 pm #
Well,Indonesia and Philippines……
Hilla | August 26th, 2009 at 4:22 pm #
Hey! Gotta love miss Japan! she’s a beauty! also I like Miss China…!
elad-vav | August 28th, 2009 at 9:05 pm #
I don’t know, they all look the same to me ;)
Nitzan | August 31st, 2009 at 9:42 pm #
but why so many of them look like Chinese and not like Malay Philippina or Vietnamese
Fili | September 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am #
Nitzan – Huh? :S What’s different about the way the Malay Filipino Vietnamese girls look?
Nitzan | September 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm #
I am not sure about Vietnamese i think they are mixture some looks like chinese whreas some looks like Thai/Khmer …
as for Phillipinas they looks quite different (i mean the most who doesn’t have Chinese/European ancestry).
Malay people has larger eyes and has natural brown skin.
In east Indonesia they have some Papuan (malenesian) influence such as darker skin curly hair.
Otta | September 4th, 2009 at 9:53 pm #
Ha, thanks for the vote for Ms. Indonesia :)
But I think all contestants this year were beautiful.
As for the culture groups in Indonesia (Nitzan), we have 500 (or even more) of them, and they all look different from each other. So, it’s difficult to describe a typical Indonesian look.
tongkuwait | September 6th, 2009 at 5:02 am #
how come no asian made it? this is kinda fishy to me.
john | September 13th, 2009 at 10:32 pm #
well,the beauty of asian was sparkling in Miss universe..