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Naomi Osaka has now won two Grand Slam ( major) tournaments. She is now the #1 ranked woman’s tennis player in the world. This incredible athletic achievement has served to divide Japan like a Wall along Mexico. I ran across this interesting article in the Australian ( speaking of racially divided) website Nine. Despite flying…
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The Philippines’ newly-crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray remarked that there is “beauty” in poverty in the interview section of the pageant which was held in Manila, Philippines this year. The interview sections of beauty pageants are usually the butts of popular jokes. This time, however, Gray, one of the more widely-admired Miss Philippines personalities, drew…
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Pinoy Pride is back on the hotseat as Catriona Gray wins the Miss Universe title. Of course, fantards are willing to overlook her foreign-sounding name and mixed ancestry to the chagrin who seek to champion brown and native looks. But as we at this blog ask, does winning this beauty contest mean anything at all?…
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