Why Vietnam takes beating at int’l beauty contests

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese competitors always suffer bad luck at international pageant contests. It is common that they hurriedly go abroad for competitions and miss many activities of these contests. Beauty contests: bumper crop at home, failure abroad! Nguyen Ai Chau (Miss Young International 2007 in Taiwan) Leaving hastily, returning hurriedly Vietnamese girls go to international beauty arenas rather hastily. Several days before the contests, many of them say they had just learned that they were selected for the contests. All of them say they were surprised to be chosen. When a journalist ask about her preparations for Miss International 2007, supermodel Pham Thuy Duong said that she still had not received any official announcement about it. Miss Sea Dang Minh Thu also said she was surprised to be selected for Miss World 2007 because she thought that if Miss Vietnam Global 2007 Ngo Phuong Lan did not go, the first runner up Teressa Sam would be the substitute, not her. Model Truong Tri Truc Diem, who attended Miss Earth 2007, knew that she and two other girls were nominees for this contest just one month before the event began. For that reason, up to the day Minh Thu left Vietnam for China for Miss World 2007 she was being instructed in how to process and send photos to Vietnam by mail. Nguyen Ai Chau, Vietnamese competitor at Miss Young International 2007, urgently learnt make-up skills from a friend several days before she went to Taiwan for the contest. Ai Chau and most Vietnamese competitors at international beauty contests have not taken part in any professional make-up course so it is understandable that their appearance on the stage in a forest of beauties is not eye-catching. Limited time for preparation also results in weakness of social knowledge. Not having time to read documents about the environment, Truong Tri Truc Diem, Vietnamese representative at Miss Earth 2007, surfed the net for environmental information of Vietnam immediately before her interview in the Philippines. Truong Tri Truc Diem (Miss Earth 2007 in the Philippines) Why do Vietnamese beauties suffer bad luck? Most Vietnamese beauty representatives have bad luck when abroad for international beauty contests. They also miss many parts of pageant contests. Why? Last year Miss Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy participated in Miss World competition in Poland in hurried preparation and she missed many parts. She also lost her suitcase so she could not take part in the talent competition. Dang Minh Thu, who is now in China for Miss World 2007, did not compete for Miss Talent title because she could not bring necessary tools to China and would not have enough time to perform. Pham Thuy Duong, who recently took part in Miss International 2007 in Japan, and Nguyen Ai Chau (Miss Young International 2007 in Taiwan) regret that these contests did not have talent competitions. Thuy Duong’s plan to play piano and sing an English song titled “Colour of the Night” was ruined. Huong Giang (Miss Asia 2007) and Truc Diem (Miss Earth 2007) showed their talents at these contests but the results were poor. In this competition, Huong Giang whistled “Hello” song, but with only one minute, she could whistle the refrain only. As the talent competition was bad, competitors had to do their talent shows again and this time Huong Giang performed with a chair but she still failed. Truc Diem sang an English song about the environment, What I have done, but there was no VCD player at Miss Earth 2007, so she had to sing without music. Pham Thuy Duong (Miss International 2007 in Japan) Inferiority complex, the mother of failure Many may ask, how does the beauty of Vietnamese girls compare to international contestants? They are all famous models, with international height (at least 1.70m). Huong Giang was even one the tallest girls at Miss Asia 2007. So why have they all lost? English is said the biggest barrier of Vietnamese beauty queens at international beauty contests. Because of their poor English, they cannot even communicate, so how can they express themselves? Model Trieu Nguyen Thu Trang, who attended Miss Tourism Queen International 2007 in July 2007 in Shanghai, China, said that her roommate was her interpreter as well. Because of poor English, Trang did not know about the daily plan of the contest so she had to see how her roommate prepared for each day to follow. Thuy Duong (Miss International 2007) said that foreign languages were not the biggest problem of Vietnamese girls at international beauty contests, but their timidity. She said that many contestants who could not speak English were still very self-confident to show themselves and they could still smile if they did something wrong, not be shy or abashed. Tran Thi Huong Giang (Miss Asia 2007 in Hong Kong) Too late to draw experience Most Vietnamese competitors take part in international beauty contests for the first time while their rivals are very professional and experienced. Unprofessional training, health problems, hurried preparations are continuously blamed for the failure of Vietnamese beauties. There are many objective and subjective reasons for their failure but Vietnamese beauty queens should look at themselves. Some of them went abroad with the thinking that they would surely fail and they went to learn and have an exchange with the world. Some left with great determination and they only understood what their real ability was at the contests and some felt regret and learnt experience for themselves after the contests but they don’t have any chance to use their experience. Trieu Nguyen Thu Trang (Miss Tourism Queen International 2007 in China) http://english.vietnamnet.vn/r