The win of Chelsea Manalo as this year’s Miss Universe Philippines was dubbed a surprise and historic by pageant enthusiasts and experts.
Chelsea Manalo, the beauty from Bulacan, is the first Pinay of Afro-American descent to represent the Philippines at the annual Miss Universe. She will compete with other global beauties later this year in Mexico with the mission to continue the country’s semifinals and Top 10 placement, regained by Michelle Dee at Miss U in El Salvador.MANILA, Philippines —
It’s time for the country to send a representative of African-American descent, a welcome addition to the half-breed Filipinas with American, Australian, Arab, German, Indian, Italian and Scottish racial and ethnic roots. After all, the ancestors of this land are believed to be Austronesians and hill people.Although she was on the radar and expected to land in the Top 10, she worked her way slowly but surely and fervently with the aspiration to become a Filipina queen.
Chelsea has what the others call the 3B’s: beauty, body, and brains. She also possesses the 2P’s: pulchritude and personality. Like what I’ve mentioned in my previous article on Miss Philippines’ prospects at this year’s Miss Universe, the successor of Michelle Marquez Dee has two missions to carry out, aside from bringing the country’s fifth crown: to keep and maintain the country’s semi-finals and Top 10 placement and break its non-placement in a Miss Universe edition held in Mexico. Chelsea has these challenges to handle and hurdle.
However, in three of the four Miss U in Mexico editions, women of color or of African descent such as Miss Jamaica , Miss USA , Miss Tanzania and Miss Angola entered the Top 10 and Top 15.
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