Those beauty pageants are meant to highlight not just the beauty but the intelligence of the candidates and that issue about whether pia and catriona are pure blooded filipino just dont fvcking make sense, when you love a country and you do your best to be a great citizen then there's nothing wrong with being half blooded, they are sent there not just because their beauties are out of the world but because they have the will and the guts to be a proud citizen. And to add, they are really proud to be a filipina just like what catriona said she stood there not as one but as hundred millions of filipinos and i think that being said by an intelligent woman like her is enough. Love lots from GERMANY lols