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, “Today, in my country Myanmar, there are so many people dying. Please help Myanmar. We need your urgent international help right now.” Outside of Myanmar, there are other beauty queens who have used beauty pageants as a platform to further a cause. Emily Sioma of Michigan was given only a few seconds to introduce herself at the Miss America 2018 competition, and boy, did she use it wisely.
At a beauty contest in South America, model Valentina Schnitzer of Chile shocked many as she declared “the sea belongs to Bolivia” on stage. According to, she was talking about “the Pacific Ocean—the subject of a dispute between Chile and its landlocked neighbor for more than a century.” The beauty queen specifically said: “We are with you, we want to keep fighting for your rights.
Moving to Peru, Miss Peru 2017 had a different approach in introducing the candidates. Instead of reciting their body measurements, they shed light on a much more important matter: violence against women—a major concern in the country, as stated on the
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