Re: Tibetan quits pageant over China title - Is there a Tibet, China and a Tibet, India?
- From: Ronald Moshki <sector_fart@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 04:22:50 -0800 (PST)
Do you think the Canadians would like it, if Miss Quebec Livre
competes side by side with Miss Canada ?
On Dec 6, 5:46 pm, bmo...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 6, 4:18 pm, James <j0069b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 6, 5:44 pm, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tibetan quits pageant over China title
By ASHOK SHARMA, Associated Press Writer
Wed Dec 5, 3:44 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071205/ap_on_re_as/tibet_beauty_pageant_1
NEW DELHI - A Tibetan woman said Wednesday that she pulled out of a
beauty pageant in Malaysia after organizers, reacting to pressure from
Beijing, told her halfway through the event that she could only
participate if she added "China" to her "Miss Tibet" title.
Tsering Chungtak, 22, was allowed to participate in the preliminary
rounds of the Miss Tourism contest for one week, but was later told by
the organizers to either wear a sash labeled "Miss Tibet-China" or
quit, she told reporters after her return to the Indian capital, New
Delhi.
Malaysian government officials were not immediately available for
comment.
Participants from 30 countries are vying for the title of Miss
Tourism, to be selected on Saturday in Malaysia.
"I felt that this was not acceptable to me at all," Chungtak said
wearing a sash labeled "Miss Tibet" on her long cream-colored dress.
Chungtak said the founder of the pageant told her Dec. 1 about the
Chinese pressure over the issue that a Tibetan could only participate
as a Tibetan Chinese.
"When the organizers allowed me to take part in the preliminaries this
time, I thought that there was a change in the Chinese policy," she
said.
Chungtak, a student of sociology in a New Delhi college, was crowned
Miss Tibet in 2006 at a contest in the northern Indian town of
Dharmsala, home to a majority of Tibetan exiles and the seat of their
spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
"The Tibetan issue is same as ever. ... China is in control of Tibet
and there is no freedom in Tibet," she said.
"This is all happening at a time when China is gearing up to build a
clean image for itself in the run-up to Beijing Olympics," she added.
China occupied Tibet by military force in 1951. A Tibetan uprising was
crushed by the Chinese government in 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled to
India.
In this case she should be know as Ms. Tibet - India. She lives in
India I'm sure India would love to have some of her territory be
referred to as Tibet.
Another choice might be Ms. Little Tibet. Ethnic oversea beauty
contests do not represent the mother country. No Ms. Chinatown would
claim to be Ms. China. No Ms. Little Italy would claim to be Ms.
Italy.
True, but those cases are a little different than Tibet.- Hide quoted text -
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