http://www.mp285.com/2007/05/recap-a-troubled-miss-universe-contest/ wide world. in a web. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.mp285.com/2007/05/recap-a-troubled-miss-universe-contest/#comment-15 priyanka Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:17:45 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/recap-a-troubled-miss-universe-contest/#comment-15 Looks like everyone's talking about Miss USA: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03lacey.html?ref=weekinreview It's strange, isn't it? There are few forums in which the people from one country can express their feelings about the politics of another--the people, i mean, not the leaders. So we use these global cultural events that have little to do with our politics and invest them with all kinds of meaning, co-opt them for the purposes of dialogue, or at least yelling. We need soccer games and beauty pageants to get our political feelings out. Looks like everyone’s talking about Miss USA: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03lacey.html?ref=weekinreview
It’s strange, isn’t it? There are few forums in which the people from one country can express their feelings about the politics of another–the people, i mean, not the leaders. So we use these global cultural events that have little to do with our politics and invest them with all kinds of meaning, co-opt them for the purposes of dialogue, or at least yelling. We need soccer games and beauty pageants to get our political feelings out.

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