A baguette-bedecked beauty queen bedevils bigots in Vietnam

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H’hen Nie is the first minority woman to become Miss Vietnam

 

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The light skin- dark skin divide is just nuts. Colonized people, wakeup! schooldaze. How do you stand against racism yet hold on to colorism?

She bucked the trend of early marriage customary in her ethnic community. In an interview in Hanoi Hen Nie told me she was dtermined to change her Destiny thru hard work & education,which she did. my piece FriendsofUNFPA unfpa_vietnam UNFPAasia

proud of Vietnamese

She looks lightskined

And they have the nerve to say beauty pageants are not superficial? It's obvious, beauty pageants are meant to sexually entertain men. I'm pretty sure Vietnamese men would be pissed off if all their young women started taking pride in having dark skin, and chopped off their hair.

Someone had a great time writing that headline.

rocks? news?

eloisawainwrig1

Why do I suddenly want Bahn Mi?

Relatively dark-skinned compared to who? Kirstjen Nielsen?

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