u/renaldi21 — reddlx

I personally prefer homegrown queens over foreign born ones, them being a halfie is not important but them growing up in the Philippines does. Because they are Filipinos regardless of parentage but BMW is not, I'm not sorry for saying that.

It is colonialism when we prefer something overseas when we already have perfect ones on our home. Preference of eurocentric beauty over diverse ones is bad as beauty would become monolithic and the only defining factor that this beauty comes from this country is the shade in their skin but everyone would look the same.

But regardless of the politics at MUPh or BMW's passport could make her travel to Puerto Rico easily as BMW is American and Puerto Rico is an US Territory. The MUPh org crowned her over better Homegrown Filipino Beauty Queens so that's the end of it. But if she win or lose or if I watch MU I would certainly not support this bandwagon that's being normalized.

hating BMW for winning would defeat the purpose of empowerment for these women as it's the main and sole purpose of beauty pageants we Filipinos like.