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Miss Universe 2009 - Global Perceptions of Asian Beauty

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

Indonesia - Zivanna Letisha Siregar

 

 Philippines – Bianca Manalo

 Philippines - Bianca Manalo

 

Vietnam – Hoang Yen Vo

Vietnam - Hoang Yen Vo

 

Singapore – Rachel Kum

Singapore - Rachel Kum

 

Japan – Emiri Miyasaka

Japan - Emiri Miyasaka

 

Korea – Rina

Korea - Rina

 

China – Wang Jingyao

China - Wang Jingyao

 

Malaysia – Joannabelle Ng

Malaysia - Joannabelle Ng

 

Thailand – Chutima Durongdej

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?)

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  1. Nitzan - Gravatar

    Nitzan  |  August 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm #

    what a beauty!

  2. Ushitora - Gravatar

    Ushitora  |  August 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm #

    Miss. Universe is a shame! HOw come no Asian made it on the top 15??

  3. archeryRich - Gravatar

    archeryRich  |  August 25th, 2009 at 2:19 pm #

    Well,Indonesia and Philippines……

  4. Hilla - Gravatar

    Hilla  |  August 26th, 2009 at 4:22 pm #

    Hey! Gotta love miss Japan! she’s a beauty! also I like Miss China…!

  5. elad-vav - Gravatar

    elad-vav  |  August 28th, 2009 at 9:05 pm #

    I don’t know, they all look the same to me ;)

  6. Nitzan - Gravatar

    Nitzan  |  August 31st, 2009 at 9:42 pm #

    but why so many of them look like Chinese and not like Malay Philippina or Vietnamese

  7. Fili - Gravatar

    Fili  |  September 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am #

    Nitzan – Huh? :S What’s different about the way the Malay Filipino Vietnamese girls look?

  8. Nitzan - Gravatar

    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.

  9. Otta - Gravatar

    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.

  10. tongkuwait - Gravatar

    tongkuwait  |  September 6th, 2009 at 5:02 am #

    how come no asian made it? this is kinda fishy to me.

  11. john - Gravatar

    john  |  September 13th, 2009 at 10:32 pm #

    well,the beauty of asian was sparkling in Miss universe..

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