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Beauty Queens or, things I’m not really impressed by

Written By: Due-East on December 12, 2007 One Comment
Miss World 2007, China's Zhang Zilin
 
I’ve been living under a rock lately when it comes to Asian news, so I missed the fact that Miss China was named “Miss World” on December 1st. Cool. Good for her!
 
But what bugs me is how just because someone is attractive and is a “sweet innocent beauty” that has “the demure look”, people act like she’s a goddess or the savior of the world or something. Case in point, check out this excerpt from the article:

Xuan Wucheng, Zhang’s former college classmate, says he received dozens of messages from friends and acquaintances the day after Zhang’s triumph, which typically read: “Do you know the news? Your classmate was crowned Miss World. You are so lucky to have once shared the same classroom with her.”

C’mon, people, she’s a regular person who happens to be attractive enough and have a good enough personality to charm some judges into crowning her with an honorary title. How does that make anybody “lucky to have once shared the same classroom with her”? Let me know when she solves all the world’s problems. Then I’ll be impressed and consider myself lucky to have seen her picture even. Until then, I’ll be over here making fun of something in the news…and wishing she were my girlfriend. [insert ironic smile here]
 
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One Response to “Beauty Queens or, things I’m not really impressed by”

  1. teople says on: 17 December 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Dream on!

    说实话,我个人觉得她不是很漂亮,可能是省美观念有差别吧…

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