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1) no, 2) if so, why not hold intelligence competitions? You're worshipping empty vases.
Sure, if you're the hot one, you can be proud of that, but someone you'll never even meet? Besides, for sport, and other things, your country has funded and created a world-beating team. In this adult equivalent of peek-a-boo, your country happens to have the girl which the judges would most like to bone. The competition, furthermore, is not direct, as it is judged and not played. Basically four dudes say 'I like this one the best' and she 'wins.' In sport there is a competition. In war there is a competition. In economics there is a competition. There are sides and teams.Beautiful people = good human capital to cherish at least, and there is nothing wrong to be proud of it (isn't patriotism kinda same stuff?).
Finally, in sport, your country is strong! The best! In war, too! In economics, you're rich! In beauty, one person from your country is deemed attractive by three other people. I mean, for reals? In football, for instance, the country chooses the very best team it can produce and it competes directly against all the best other teams. In this 21st century exemplar of misogyny and lechery, a) there's no centralised standard, there are like 5 Miss/Mrs World/Universe competitions, into which only the egotistical, naive, and easy-to-control are entered, and there are as I understand laws against married or previously married people entering. It's idiocy, for the entertainment of idiots. I am ashamed to have citizenship from one country (the US) that takes this high-level stupidity seriously. At least in the UK, we couldn't care less.
It's all questionable.But on the other hand all thsese international competitions are just show business and their organisation and standards are rather questionable.
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