There are a couple of videos from one of the Miss Teen events (It is Riddhi Siddhi Miss Teen not the Republica Miss Teen) posted below. Contest, organizers, and location doesn’t really matter here. What matters is how they are organized and trained. The primary language of the event is English and the participant Teens find it really difficult.
I know, the winner of the event might need to participate in international arena. But, does that mean the primary language of the event should be made English when their first language is not English? My first language is not English and at times I find myself short of words while writing here. I have time… I can take forever to post an article and still my English sucks at times. These kids have talked in Nepal all their lives and they had to practice each lines they speak by heart – I am wondering, how can they be creative in the event?
Enough of talks. Let’s see the video and see how funny it looks when the participants introduce themselves in English.
Here is the video of Miss Teen 2009 introduction round:
These young girls must really have had hard time learning the lines by heart. Here is the extract from uploader‘s comments in YouTube:
It is a cool thing to copy things from other culture, such as Miss Teen or Miss Nepal but sometimes it is better not to try to copy something if in doing so you will be just humiliating yourself and your pride as who you already are.
Leaving all aside, one thing that bothers the most is, ‘Do they really need to speak English?’ There is a language they can speak properly and confidently, called Nepali.
Another video later part of the show:
UPDATE: Shristi Neupane won the Miss Teen title for the year 2066 (It is confusing whether it is called a 2009 event of 2010).