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last vlog I revealed the six things I like about Miss Earth. In today's vlog I
will reveal the five things that I hate about Miss Earth and let's start now.
At number five - mediocre facial beauty. There is a saying that beauty is subjective
and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In other words beauty cannot be judged objectively, for what one person finds
beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another person. Even though I find the
majority of Miss Earth titleholders facially beautiful, there are some whose
beauty I find rather ordinary. I'm not going to mention names so as not to
offend the fans of these title holders or the title holders themselves but I
will say that the queens whose faces I find ordinary include one from Europe,
four from the Americas, and three from Asia. I'm sure you can figure them out
yourselves. At number four - mediocre security. During the 2018 pageant several
contestants came forward with stories of alleged sexual harassment that they have
experienced at the hands of one of the pageant's longtime sponsors, Amado Cruz.
Oon November 7th Miss Earth Canada 2018 Jaime Vandenberg and Miss Earth England
2018 Abbey-Anne Gyles-Brown wrote an Instagram about their experiences of
harassment and bad management at Miss Earth 2018. Without naming the
sponsor yet, Vandenberg and Gyles-Brown shared that the sponsor would call them
and ask for their hotel room numbers. This inspired at least five other
contestants, even from previous years, to also share their experiences of
harassment and predatory behavior while competing at Miss Earth. It was alleged
that these incidents have been happening since 2005.
Listen, pageants and modeling competitions or any event that involves
beautiful young women will always attract sexual predators. This is not
limited to Miss Earth. What bothers me is that if sexual harassment allegations
have been going on since 2005, Carousel Productions should have done something
about it then. This gives the perception that Carousel does not care about the
girls' safety and only cared about sponsors. At number 3 - odd selection of
judges. I'm not quite sure what criteria does Carousel Productions look for in
selecting two judges, but I find this approach rather odd and inconsistent. For
example, the pageant has invited former queens from rival pageants like in 2003
when Evangeline Pascual Miss World 1973 first runner-up sat in the judging
panel. In 2006 they invited both Abbygale Arenas, Bb. Pilipinas Universe
1997 and Justine Gabionza, Miss Tourism Queen International 2006. And in 2007
they invited Agnesa Vuthaj, national director of Miss Kosovo, Albania's
in Miss World 2004 and Miss Universe 2005. In 2016, the President
of Miss World Philippines, Arnold Vegafria, judged the pageant. If Miss Earth
wants to strengthen and solidify their brand they should not be inviting people
associated with rival pageants. Oh, in 2017 some “beauty queen” named Tram Luu
was invited to judge that year and she was described by the host James Deakin
as simply a “beauty pageant main titleholder”. So I did some
research and apparently Lu was Mrs. Universe 2017. Interesting. And get this,
no beauty queen judged the pageant in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2014. How weird
is that? It also seems that Miss Earth is
following the footsteps of Miss World by allowing Lorraine Schuck, executive Vice
President of Carousel Productions, to judge as well in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2018. And
in 2017 in addition to Schuck, two other Carousel executives, Ramon Monzon , the President,
and Peachy Veneracion, the project director, also were part of the judging
panel. At number 2 - arbitrary rules. For a pageant that seeks to play by the rules
Miss Earth or in this case Carousel Productions sometimes bends its own
rules just because the organizers feel like it. Let's take for example the
citizenship requirement. On the official Miss Earth website it says, "Important a
national delegate for Miss Earth should be a citizen of the country she will be
representing, and a national pageant winner by a recognized Miss Earth
franchise holder. Contact us for further inquiries and we will refer you to the
National Director in your country of citizenship." Now let me get this straight -
Crimea, which has been participating in the pageant since 2010 when it was still
part of Ukraine was eventually annexed to the Russian Federation in 2014. One
wonders if Crimea should not have been allowed entry because it is not really a
country but rather a territory of either Russia or the Ukraine depending on the
time period. Likewise, Martinique and Reunion should
not be allowed to compete because there are not nations but rather overseas
departments of France. there is no such thing as a Martinique or Reunion citizenship.
The same logic would apply to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
since these four "states" technically and politically comprise the United Kingdom,
but I guess Carousel Productions wants more bodies on stage and that's why they
allow pseudo-countries to participate. In 2016
Miss Earth admitted Palestine which is not and has never been a nation thus to
assume that the delegate was of "Palestinian" citizenship is absurd and
deceptive. Ten years before in 2006 Carousel admitted Tokelau which is a
dependent territory of New Zealand. Another rule that bothers me about Miss
Earth is the height requirement.Whereas Miss Universe and Miss world have done
away with the height requirement years ago Miss Earth feels that a contestant
must have a minimum weight of 5 feet 5 inches or 165 point 10 centimeters.
Scandal rocked the Miss Earth 2017 pageant when the organizers decided to
eliminate Miss Earth South Africa Irini Moutzouris from the competition because
she failed to meet the minimum height requirement of 5 '5". She was only 5'4".
Carousel should have bent its rules this one time alone instead of
giving the boot to Irini when the pageant had already entered his third
week. On the Critical Beauty Facebook page former National Director of
Australia Kelly Louise McGuire (Miss Earth Australia 2010) posted that she was
annoyed by the pageant's seemingly arbitrary rules. She also posted a photo
of herself with a much shorter Miss Earth Denmark who apparently had not met
the minimum height requirement but nevertheless was allowed to compete. Go
figure. At number one - lack of proficient
interpreters. My biggest pet peeve about Miss Earth is its inadequate staff of
interpreters - that is - if you can call them interpreter.s I don't recall a year
where the pageant did not have one bad interpreter. Compared to Miss
Universe or Miss World that hires professional interpreters, Miss Earth
relies on anyone who claims he or she can interpret from one language to
another, even relying on bilingual contestants themselves to do the
translation. This practice needs to stop as if it
gives the perception that Carousel, the producers of the pageant, is just too
cheap or too lazy or both to hire competent professional interpreters to
assist the non-English speaking contestants to better express themselves
in their native language. The final question and answer portion could make
or break the candidate as pageant contestants are usually judged in terms
of beauty and intelligence. Who can forget that moment in 2011 when an
interpreter failed to do his job and ended up screwing Miss Venezuela's
answer? She tried her best to keep on repeating her answer but the translator
just couldn't get it right. It eventually cost her the crown as she landed only in
fourth place.
There were some cases though in which translators were not available it
happened to Teresa Fajskova from Czech Republic in Miss Earth 2012. Instead of answering the question which she did not understand she just
expressed a short message using some English words that she knew. Despite
evading the question, she still won the pageant.
This is your question:What would you consider as your defining moment as a
woman?"
Okay okay good evening ladies gentlemen I'm so that's my problem because I don't
understand quiz so I will try to say it's just message I want to say that we
have to protect mother earth because you know helping mother happy people it's
not privilege its duty for us for living on this planet thank you
she gave us everything he what we need to the live syrups respect her and
she'll do respect us so thank you thank you so much I'm at fault I'm so sorry.
In 2013 the Spanish-speaking interpreter was an improvement from past ones and
even though he might have botched Miss Venezuela's answer the judges looked
past this discrepancy and awarded her the crown anyway. It was painful to watch
Miss Poland stammer in English but blame the organizers for not having
provided a Polish-speaking interpreter.
In your opinion why does God allow natural disasters to happen on earth?
Because God I think God want to show bad people how to how to
how to love together our God to love everyone and I think in our word should
be wrong side and better and a good side. I attended my first Miss Earth pageant
when it was held in Manila in late November 2014. During the top eight
Q & A portion miss Brazil Leticia Silva was asked by one of the
judges, "When can you say that a woman is truly
empowered?" Miss Switzerland Shayade Hug helped translate the question to mMiss
Brazil but Miss Brazil replied in Portuguese. Host Justin Breton thanked
Miss Brazil but Justin commented “That sounds good to me.”
He further commented asking the audience “Anybody else?” – by that he meant did
someone else agree with him that Miss Brazil's answer sounded good to him?
Then a frustrated miss Brazil asked Justin to let Miss Switzerland interpret
her answer but Miss Switzerland apologized that she was not the
interpreter for Miss Brazil: "I'm so sorry. I'm not the translator for Miss Brazil."
but Miss Switzerland interpreted it as "A woman is empowered if she can do what
she wants. It comes from the inside, from the heart." This episode is one of the
most embarrassing moments in the history of Miss Earth though not as disgraceful
as the infamous 2012 alleged bribery scandal video. Oh oh uh can someone
please tell host James Deakin to stop yelling the name of the country?
There you have it - the five things that I hate about Miss Earth. Do you agree or
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favorites for the Miss Earth 2019 crown. See you then. Bye!