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u/summercloudsadness
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Miss Universe Thailand's gown is made of pull tabs as a homage to her garbage collector dad & street sweeper mom Wholesome Moments
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u/kmigz Jan 12 '23
I love this. Nothing wrong with coming from a hard working family.
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u/Frodo612 Jan 13 '23
Exactly this, I remember once telling a girl how I worked at a hotel at reception and then washed dishes sometimes for extra money and she was super embarrassed. She said I should stop talking. There is nothing wrong with doing that, especially since I was on a working holiday in another country and the whole experience was wonderful to me..
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u/SpecialDot Jan 13 '23
I'm planning to do a working holiday in Japan, which country did you go to?
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u/Frodo612 Jan 13 '23
The UK.
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u/MuttonDressedAsGoose Jan 13 '23
I was wondering if maybe there was some cultural thing at play here. Nope. She's just weird.
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u/Lucidream- Jan 13 '23
No no, that's actually upper middle and upper class English culture. They look down on people who do that kind of work.
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u/Frodo612 Jan 13 '23
A girl had invited me over to her house and we were talking about my trip in the UK, her sister was there and I think she was embarrassed that she would invite someone over who once years before had washed dishes. At that stage of being in that girls house I was qualified attorney working at one of the best law firms in my city.
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u/JuniorKing9 Jan 13 '23
You’ve gone a long way, and you should be proud of yourself. I’m from the UK and I’m ashamed of this girl lmao. A lot of us work in those jobs nobody else wants, heck, my family are all dairy farmers and I sew clothes for people, sometimes you don’t have a choice and that’s okay. Good job Frodo :)
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u/diopsideINcalcite Jan 13 '23
I relate to this so much. For almost two years I worked the night shift at Walmart from 4pm - 1am unloading trucks in the back room, and would go to school during the day. I’m now a scientist working for a Fed government agency in DC, but still tell people that working at Walmart taught me a lot and to this day those guys back there with me were some of the most awesome people to work with. The work sucked, but I enjoyed the people I worked with very much; there were so many characters there.
No one should ever feel ashamed for working hard to earn an honest living, in fact it’s commendable.
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u/xAshev Jan 13 '23
Also. Poor hard working families can produce beautiful children as well, she’s absolutely stunning and humble as well
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u/SkootchDown Jan 13 '23
This right here. I’m average looking, I suppose, as is my husband. But our kids? They’re all SO beautiful. We laugh about it all the time, “How the hell did THAT happen?? It’s like they hit the genetic gene pool lottery!”
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u/murderosa Jan 13 '23
People whove met my parents and sibling have said ‘wow your family is so beautiful!! What happened to you?’
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u/mommak2011 Jan 13 '23
My ex had two great looking parents. He and his sister, however, got every unattractive trait each parent carried. Not like....horrendous looking kids, but still not what you would expect from the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles.... definitely came from both parents, but just like.... someone picked out every less than gorgeous trait from both parents, and assembled them into children.
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u/Rapunzel10 Jan 13 '23
Lol that's me. My parents looked great in their day (still do), my mom especially was stunning. Several of my cousins have been approached by modeling agents. We don't live in LA or whatever we live in the middle of nowhere. My one cousin had to practically beat agents off with a stick, I kid you not she could be Anne Hathaway's sister. Me? Nah, I didn't get any of that. I got nice hair but thats it. My brother got my moms looks and nice hair. Not fair lol
Meanwhile my husband got the opposite. His parents are pretty average but he's very handsome. He somehow looks like the best version of both his parents. Genetics are crazy
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u/maddking Jan 13 '23
I came up with this theory years ago when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married that there was such a thing as “peak pretty” and that beyond that the genetic pool just resets the game.
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u/AGirlHasNoName19 Jan 13 '23
Wow, really? To me their kid looks like someone cherry picked the best traits of each parent to make the perfect face. I completely respect your opinion though.
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u/EshayAdlay420 Jan 13 '23
Damn it's like they did the fusion dance, which is technically accurate I guess.
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u/PHRESH21 Jan 13 '23
I will now refer to sex time with my wife as the fusion dance. She will have zero idea what its referencing but I will be so happy.
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u/Cyrano_Nose Jan 13 '23
And as gorgeous as both of them are, lets be honest, either or both might have had some work done to correct minor flaws that otherwise might stick out amongst the perfection.
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u/mypeeholeneedsme Jan 13 '23
Maybe. But if you’ve seen pics of either from their youth, you might feel differently. They’re outliers.
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u/jimmiepesto Jan 13 '23
Yeah they didn’t have any bad traits to choose from imo too
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u/algnonamoose Jan 13 '23
I feel this way too 🥲 like I see the ugliest parents with the most attractive offspring and then I look at my parents, who were very very attractive, and then I’m just like 👹
I feel like I got the worst traits mentally and physically from both my parents and it sucks (meanwhile my little sister got all their best attributes).
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u/meowparade Jan 13 '23
Same here, I got anxiety, depression, bad skin, and ADHD genes, while my brother got the gifted, good skin, good hair, and overall attractiveness genes.
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u/algnonamoose Jan 13 '23
Same here with the ADHD I feel your pain 🥺 I was bullied and subject to abuse in my life thanks to being “neurodivergent” and now I have trauma too. My sister of course does not and everyone loves her lol.
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u/2017hayden Jan 13 '23
It has a lot more to do with exactly what traits you inherit than your parents level of attractiveness. If your dad has a massive nose and a weak chin and your mom has bad skin and terrible teeth but you inherit his great teeth and good complexion along with your mothers jawline and nose you could very well turn out looking pretty good. Sometimes good traits don’t look so good when combined with other traits that aren’t great or just don’t go well with them, so ugly people can have gorgeous kids and gorgeous people can have ugly kids. It’s mostly about what features you happen to inherit and how well they match eachother.
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u/loganed3 Jan 13 '23
Same here I'm the ugliest in the family by a landslide.
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u/blueeyebling Jan 13 '23
Then your family will tell you something like, just say what you want people will listen. You don't understand you live with different rules than I.
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u/Bizerd Jan 13 '23
You don’t think there’s a bit of bias there? Or are they all models?!
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u/Schmurderschmittens Jan 13 '23
I hate this conversation. I was awkward looking as a child, hot in my 20s, and forgettable now. I think context is so important too. Photogenic people sometimes look weird or creepy in real life and Vv
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u/WhatWouldPicardDo Jan 13 '23
Huh?
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u/The-unicorn-republic Jan 13 '23
They thought it was insinuated that if you came from a poor family you couldn't be pretty I guess 🤷♀️
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u/xAshev Jan 13 '23
She looks like a rich gal coming from a rich family is what i was trying to say. Totally my fault for miscommunicating.
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u/Tight_Sheepherder934 Jan 13 '23
It’s a miss universe (Competition? Pageant? Idk.) thing, lol, no contestant is gonna look homeless
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u/SilverStarPress Jan 13 '23
Unless they are wearing something from the Deralicte line.
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u/leoski Jan 13 '23
You can Deralic my balls
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u/cleanutbutterclan Jan 13 '23
What is this?! A pageant for ants?
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u/markus242005 Jan 13 '23
I don’t want to hear your excuses! This pageant needs to be at least… 3 times bigger than this…
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u/pierrotlefou Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
Poor hard working families can produce beautiful children as well
They certainly can but IMO, she used to be a lot prettier before her surgeries.
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u/OpalOnyxObsidian Jan 13 '23
It probably costs less in Thailand
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u/The-unicorn-republic Jan 13 '23
Adjusted for average income and purchasing power it's probably about the same for the people who live in Thailand
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u/Ok_Sink_7572 Jan 13 '23
As an American in Thailand, you are partially correct. average income is certainly less here, but cost of goods and services is also significantly cheaper, so average Purchasing power is greater in Thailand than US. Cosmetic surgery is absolutely cheaper here than in the US, in both absolute and relative terms.
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u/WonderfulShelter Jan 13 '23
I mean she definitely got the surgery after becoming a model and probably someone else paid for it...
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u/m1sch13v0us Jan 12 '23
That’s impressive craftsmanship. It looks like each tab was polished to sparkle.
Beautiful woman, and I love the gesture towards her parents. Very sweet.
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u/beigs Jan 13 '23 •
She’s like that rainbow shiny fish book that had the beautiful scales
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u/fadedrob Jan 13 '23
that rainbow shiny fish book
It's called "The Rainbow Fish" and you're absolutely correct.
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u/chaoticneutralhobbit Jan 13 '23
You just unlocked a core memory for me
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u/LouSputhole94 Jan 13 '23
Looks like you, I and about 50 other redditors just remember the shiny fish book from childhood
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u/DeuceyBoots Jan 13 '23
For any others that wanted to re-read the book but don’t have it with them anymore. https://youtu.be/Z3cmddZh6t8
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u/KnowsIittle Jan 13 '23
I was not a fan of that book. I understand it's core message but at the same time it was saying you can't be special and have to give away parts of yourself to adjust to society's expectations instead of just being allowed to be you.
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u/DeuceyBoots Jan 13 '23
I re-read the book through this YouTube video. I don’t have the book anymore.
I think the core message was more about wealth/possessions and sharing them with the world. The last page of the book has the message, “His most prized possessions had been given away, yet he was very happy”.
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u/beigs Jan 13 '23
I honestly don’t remember the book at all, just that it was pretty and holographic. I think it was my younger brother’s, but the art stuck out.
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u/DroneDance Jan 13 '23
Looks like crystals were weaved into it too. Incredible art.
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u/noorofmyeye24 Jan 13 '23
This.
It reminds me of something that’s made on the show, Project Runway during the unconventional material challenge. This would’ve won. And she should make a simple mini dress that could be sold to the masses. I would buy!
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u/aluriaphin Jan 13 '23
When she turns you can see the hanging gems spinning out, and if you look on the edges around her arms you'll see crystals. It's so glittery because it's got a lot of rhinestone and crystal embellishments, the tabs are just the base.
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u/anonymous_redditor_0 Jan 13 '23
Apparently the pull tabs have Swarovski crystals attached to them
Edit: a word
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u/youwantitwhen Jan 13 '23
Under those lights, everything sparkles.
Take the most tarnished brass trumpet and it gleams under those lights.
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u/bazarius_baladarxes
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Damn that's some high tier late game armor right there
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u/etherpromo Jan 13 '23
Protects absolutely nothing but has the highest of stats - as is tradition.
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u/Aitch-Kay Jan 13 '23
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u/etherpromo Jan 13 '23
My fav channel haha. Brits a bae.. They released a new skit that makes fun of this again lol.
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u/messyredemptions Jan 13 '23
No no, this one manages to cover much of her midriff and thighs. This is either a garment of unimaginable power or lower level armor in comparison to armored bikinis! 🙄😂
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u/Aszkika_ Jan 13 '23
Chainmail suit for woman. Circi 2023.
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u/lavenderacid Jan 13 '23
At least if another contestant gets jealous and tries to fight her, she'll be well equipped.
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u/pissclamato Jan 13 '23
Here we see the contestant from Thailand, resplendent in her:
Mithral Evening Battle Gown - Legendary Armor
ARMOR - 100/100
+5 Constitution
+5 Charisma
+2 Protection from Mortal Strike
Casts Blindness on hit
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u/Leicester68 Jan 13 '23
But what's the AC if she has to go toe-to-toe with Miss Ukraine in the Longsword Competition?
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u/saoiray Jan 12 '23
So she grew up in a temple with Buddhist nuns. Interesting…
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u/Bloo-shadow Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
Apperantly she lived with her great grandmother (who was a Buddhist nun) due to her parents work hours.
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u/Mateorabi Jan 13 '23
How did her parents' work hours cause the grandmother to become a nun?
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u/Inner_Art482 Jan 12 '23
Well done. Beautiful woman. I'm sure she's hard working too. It would be interesting to hear her thoughts about life. As her upbringing sounds interesting.
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u/yibtk Jan 13 '23
Really interesting how the majority of them look alike no matter which ethnicity
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Every miss contest if fucking weird.
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u/stonecharioteer Jan 13 '23
I'm surprised beauty pageants are still a thing in 2023! People get cancelled for much less.
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u/mntraye Jan 13 '23
they evolved.. that's why beauty pageants survived. If you watch one now, (at least the major ones) they judged more on how well they carry themselves on stage, and on how they answer questions. Some major ones even look on their advocacies.
If you reach a beauty pageant of that caliber, It is given that you're already beautiful, thus they are mainly judged on the ones I mentioned. Today, beauty pageants are more like a combination of a modeling contest, a speech contest, that take into account their background, advocacies, and life story.
I kinda get why people hate on beauty pageants because when you hear the name "beauty pageant" , it's kinda shallow and ambiguous and so It's easy to hate on something that you don't even know/see. But today, it's much more than physical "beauty:.
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u/PhoneRedit Jan 13 '23
I mean if the models enjoy them what's the problem?
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u/DIsForDelusion Jan 13 '23
I wanna see the pretty dresses and what every country came up with to represent themselves but fuck me I guess.
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u/BongLeach562 Jan 13 '23
I just looked her up because I thought she was gorgeous. Turns out she’s had a lot of facial plastic surgery and is wearing a lot of makeup here.
Looks completely different in her graduation photos
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u/Confident-Spread9484 Jan 13 '23
No shit! She doesn’t even look Thai anymore
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u/LowDownSkankyDude Jan 13 '23
She looks incredibly European. It's crazy
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u/Fancy-Pair Jan 13 '23
Yeah pretty gross reflection of society that upholds these competitions
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u/wan2tri Jan 13 '23
She looks more "European" than our (Philippines) most recent winner Catriona Gray, who has an Australian father of Scottish descent, or the 2015 winner who has a German father, Pia Wurtzbach...
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u/chantaje333 Jan 13 '23
Question- Could you explain your country’s obsession with only crowning half white queens over someone who is all filipina? I was curious and looked it up and you have had half-white half Filipina Miss Philippines almost every year. Even both of your recent winners are half white. I believe beauty pageants are huge in Philippines but this beauty standard must really kill the confidence of those little Filipino girls who look up to them and dream of being a beauty queen one day.
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u/wan2tri Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
Er, for the last 12 representatives, that's Cortesi, Gray, Peters, and Wurtzbach. So 4 half-white.
There are 3 more half, but they're still Asian (because 2 with Indian fathers, Mateo and Raj, and 1 Palestinian, Ganados). So unless you count those as white, only then would it be closer to being "half-white almost every year" with 7 out of 12.
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u/Tbonethe_discospider Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
I thought the same thing. I have met many Thai folk over the years and I have NEVER met a Thai person that looks like that.
She looks very Latina/European.
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u/Chris_Jartha Jan 13 '23
Yeah… this is a huge issue in Thailand (and much of the world). Colorism is a ubiquitous. Skin bleaching, extensive facial surgeries. Completely unrealistic for literally just about any Thai girl to look like that.
My wife’s cousin had a massive stroke and they suspect all the pills and treatments she was doing to whiten her skin contributed to it.
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u/SuddenCourse Jan 13 '23
Apparently she is the 6th consecutive Miss Universe Thailand to be of Eurasian descent. It seems really wrong that we as a society uphold eurocentric features as THE beauty standard.
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u/UseHerMane Jan 13 '23
Philippines has the same problem. The contestants they send are almost always Eurasian, never dark skinned.
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u/Freaux Jan 13 '23
Same thing with Bollywood in India. Also every little shop you go to will have copious amounts of skin-whitening creams of a never ending number of brands.
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u/WitELeoparD Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
I just had a look through the delegates and the delegates from Singapore, Korea, Cambodia, Laos and Indonesia are paler than the delegates from Finland, Iceland and Norway (tbf the Norwegian candidate went for a very minimal makeup look).
The Korean delegates skin in the headshot is edited so pale that it's actually grey. The Chinese delegate is practically a ghost compared to the also ethnically Chinese candidate from Canada.
Ironically a lot of the predominantly white countries sent ethnically Black (France, Netherlands, UK), Mixed (Belgium, Italy), and Asian (Canada, UK) delegates. Even notoriously homogenous Japan has a delegate of Peruvian-Japenese descent.
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u/pakchimin Jan 13 '23
To be fair, white people love to tan. Especially celebrities and personalities. I've seen a photo of Florence Pugh next to Zendaya, and they have the same skintone. So a white candidate isn't even a good metric when comparing skintones, because they tan themselves until they're orange.
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u/xorgol Jan 13 '23
Colorism is a ubiquitous.
I once went on motorbike ride in Vietnam, and I needed sunscreen, the back of my hands was just boiling, I should have brought gloves. I couldn't find it without a bleaching agent in it. Also it was like $20, but at least it did the trick.
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u/hpjj Jan 13 '23
Snail white is the strangest thing in the world to me.
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u/RepresentativeMix214 Jan 13 '23
What is this?
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u/probably_your_wife Jan 13 '23
OK so snails excrete this gel when put into these weird incubators that heat up or something, then it's collected and used in skincare. That's all I know, and that's all I care to know!
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u/Amii25 Jan 13 '23
Ah, I was wondering if the snail Essence I saw on a Korean skincare website was actually snail and how they harvest that.
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u/Nolemy2800 Jan 13 '23
I actually don't even find her that pretty, just unsettling mostly. It feels like there's no humanity left in that face, just looking at it visually
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u/Lawgirl77 Jan 13 '23
Okay, I’m not the only one who felt this way. I hate to say this, but I was getting really uncanny valley vibes from her visually. It was very unsettling.
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u/GlobalLeftist Jan 13 '23
She’s horrifying looking. No idea how people can be attracted to facial augmentation This extreme.
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u/PM_ME_NCIS_QUOTES Jan 13 '23
Oh God, I didn't even see her face. Her body entranced me (as a straight woman who isn't even into this stuff).
I feel like an ass, I saw her saunter out and just thought "Jesus that's a beautiful woman"
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u/LazySleepyPanda Jan 13 '23
That would be because she looks less like a human and more like a plastic doll.
The same goes for a LOT of women these days, even normal "non-beauty queen" women.We are expected to achieve a standard of perfection that requires us to erase everything human about ourselves- that frizzy hair ? No, get it straightened. Eyebrows ? No way, get it threaded. Few spots on skin ? You better wear that concealer and foundation. Oh, don't forget to contour. And please overdraw your lips while you're at that. Hair on the body - Eww, get a full body wax ASAP, that is gross. The list goes on - bleaching, surgeries, crash dieting.
Why is a women supposed to look as un-natural as possible to fit in ? Why should we look almost not human to be respected or desired, while undergoing a lot of pain and spending a lot of money ?
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u/warmhotdogsmoothie Jan 13 '23
Tbh when she walked out the first thing I noticed was her lips look crooked. Specifically the left side of her face.. when the cam zoomed closer to her face I thought “oh yea that’s a botched lip injection or somethin.”
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u/asked2manyquestions Jan 13 '23
I was in the middle of doing the same. LOL.
I live in Thailand and one look at her and I was like, “She looks like luk krueng (mixed - half Thai half white) which means it’s highly unlikely her story is true.”
But plastic surgery makes a lot of sense too.
Also, her Wikipedia page says she went to Kasetsart University which is, again, also surprising given that most poor people aren’t afforded the opportunity to go to university in Thailand.
But then you read the complete bio and, yes, her parents had nice jobs working for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) as garbage collectors.
That means she grew up with two fully employed parents with government jobs which is a lot better off than most “poor” people.
Also, the announcer makes it sound like she grew up in a monastery/temple when her bio says she grew up raised by her grandmother who was a Buddhist nun.
Grandparents raising their grandchildren is quite normal in Thailand and not really a sign of poverty.
Oh, wait, her bio also says she’s 25% German (making her the sixth consecutive Miss Thailand of mixed race).
I’m guessing that means that her father or mother was born to a German father.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Sueangam-iam
BTW, just to be clear, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with mixed race children. My wife is Thai.
I just think that the Thai obsession with mixed race looks is so strange considering the stunningly gorgeous Thai women.
A very large percentage of the Thai entertainment industry is mixed race. So that’s what gets presented as the beauty standard.
Which leads to a vicious cycle of Thais trying to look as Caucasian as possible. Skin whiteners (almost all cosmetics, including sun screen, contain whitening products), nose jobs, etc.
My wife and I laugh all the time when you see a bunch of people on the beach and the tourists are all white whales sunning themselves and the Thais are all dressed in long sleeve compression shirts, leggings that go down to their feet, and wearing hats so they aren’t exposed to any level of sunlight.
In Thailand, and many Asian countries, being anything darker than a sheet of printer paper is a sign that you’re from the working class and low status.
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u/Emasraw Jan 13 '23
Sort of how I feel about Kim Kardashian, beautiful but in a heavily augmented way.
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u/Ok-Breakfast7186 Jan 13 '23
It’s Thailand, I’m not surprised. Same goes for Korean pageants
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u/witcherstrife Jan 13 '23
Koreans still look Korean though. I saw the sash name and was like what the fuck Thailand?
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u/Ok-Breakfast7186 Jan 13 '23
Oh there’s definitely more cultural connotations behind that which I’m not educated enough about to speak on
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u/electricmisconduct Jan 13 '23
She got plastic surgery to make herself look white and it's really disturbing.
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u/bgi123 Jan 13 '23
Yup, I think plastic surgery should be banned from these run shows. I don't care for them too much, but allowing plastic surgery kinda defeats the purpose of beauty pageant.
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u/valhallavalla Jan 13 '23
This "beauty" is derived from surgery, this is not genetic beauty. Someone paid a lot of money to make her look European. Kind of sad.
I do however appreciate the upcycled dress.
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u/thenaturalwitch Jan 13 '23
So global beauty pageants are basically just about “who looks the most white from your country?”
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u/Limeila Jan 13 '23
France must have misread the assignment then because we have black contestants almost as often as white ones
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u/shootymcghee Jan 13 '23
yeah she doesn't even look Thai, it's kinda sad
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u/wat-lady Jan 13 '23
She’s 1/4 German ancestry, making her technically Eurasian. I’m am Thai and Caucasian and I look similar to Anna Sueangam-iam. That being said, I don’t think it’s really fair to say she “doesn’t even look Thai.” Thai people can look very different depending on their backgrounds. Source: I am Thai.
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u/catchaleaf Jan 13 '23
If her entire face is surgically created why is she or any other woman allowed to compete in a beauty pageant. What is the point? The surgeons are the ones who actually deserve the credit here. Props to her having good hardworking parents but this is a disgrace to have her participate. I’ve been to Thailand the amount of skin bleaching and surgery they do is insane and how can she properly represent Thai people if she looks nothing like them bc of surgical enhancements.
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u/DrinkSoyMilk007 Jan 13 '23
They should have the surgeons walk in behind them when they strut. Could be more interesting competition then.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jan 13 '23
Dr. Chiu and Dr. Ziering also want to solve world hunger. They deserve to be seen and heard too.
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u/Limeila Jan 13 '23
Miss France bans contestants who've had plastic surgery and I think Miss Universe should too
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Jan 13 '23
I was just thinking of saying that if someone had told me this woman was Thai, I wouldn’t believe them, but didn’t want to be the first negative Nancy to point it out…thanks for making me feel less bad about thinking it lol.
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u/PersikkaPupu Jan 13 '23
When poor Thai girl gets wealthy non-Thai boyfriend: 1) Bracers 2) Nose job 3) Boob job 4) Eye job or botox
If BF is Korean, then it's even worse.
Source: Married to a Thai, lived there for years.
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u/dcearthlover Jan 13 '23
She does not even look Thai. She looks strange like she has had a lot of work done
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u/SwedenStockholm Jan 13 '23
That is a ton of surgery right there.
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u/stonecharioteer Jan 13 '23
Miss Universe Thai Miss Universe from Thailand who looks the most European to match Western beauty standards. FTFY
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u/Solivagant23 Jan 13 '23
I am currently in Thailand, and I see 10 women every day more natural and beautiful than this girl.
Plastic surgery is a disease we shouldn't encourage.
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u/greenMintCow Jan 13 '23
*body dysmorphia
Plastic surgery can help reconstruct burn victims, victims of any type of accident, or those with inhibiting birth defects.
Examples
I knew a guy who had some problem with opening his eyes and it was impeding his vision and ability to do things daily. After surgery he could functionally see with ease and was a lot happier.
There is one notorious incident where a model's face and upper body were destroyed from an acid attack by her abusive ex. Surgery helped her so that she could function (eat, breath etc) and help with her confidence, but her modeling career was over.
There was a post on reddit of someone who had to get his whole face reconstructed because of severe damage from a fall. His story was also covered in an article by the guardian
I'm all for plastic surgery regardless. It's the pressure to match the beauty standard that is toxic.
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u/smokecat20 Jan 13 '23
Great I was slowing down the video to see these tags and my wife from behind said "so you like what you see there?"
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u/luxconfectionery Jan 13 '23
hahaha this made me laugh …. hope you don’t end up sleeping on the couch stranger
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u/cosmicnitwit Jan 13 '23
She is gorgeous. But she don’t look Thai, which does bother me. I don’t appreciate western narrow standards of beauty I suppose.
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u/StardustStuffing Jan 13 '23
Before the plastic surgery, she looked Thai.
If you Google her, you can see all the progression pics
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u/Ok-Cantaloupe-3435 Jan 13 '23
Totally glad she didn’t twist the fuck out of her ankle. Looks like she almost made a misstep when going to the lower platform.
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u/WestPhilippinesSea Jan 13 '23
She has modified her face to not even look Thai in my opinion
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u/Hamletstwin Jan 13 '23
I am an idiot. With that said, is anyone else disappointed that everytime she turned a can opening sound didn't happen?
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u/Halas1920 Jan 13 '23
I don't care what she looks like, she would have won in my eyes just because she cares that much for her parents.
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u/flybobbyfly Jan 13 '23
Do they only pick applicants that look European no matter what country they come from?
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u/Expert-Parking1925 Jan 13 '23
I was in an elevator with her last week! The annual national Archaeology/Classics conference was in the same hotel. Shared elevator rides with Miss Mauritius, Miss Haïti, and Miss Singapore, too