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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 5) Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Rabiya Mateo reminded Filipino fans to refrain from leaving out racist and other hate comments towards other candidates.
In a virtual media conference on Wednesday, Mateo raised concerns on the post of Miss Universe Canada Nova Stevens, which showed some Filipinos bullying her on social media. It makes me really sad. I saw the post of Nova earlier and I really feel sorry [for] her because nobody deserves to be in that position, Mateo said.
In Stevens Instagram post early Wednesday, she attached a photo of her, along with screenshots of comments from some Filipino Instagram users making fun of her skin color.
Miss Universe Canada Nova Stevens calls out commenters for racist remarks
Published May 5, 2021 1:44pm Miss Universe Canada 2020 Nova Stevens has revealed that she had been getting racist comments online. On Tuesday, Nova shared a photo of herself filled with screen shots of negative comments which were in Tagalog. “Here we go again. I’ve been receiving this picture in my inbox a lot lately,” she wrote on Instagram. Some of the comments on her photo, which included English translations, were “nognog (‘N words’),” “katakot (scary),” “akala ko engkanto (‘I thought she was a ghost’),” “over well done ang chicken, charge sa grill man (‘burnt chicken’),” and “tostadong tostado na nga nasunog pa (‘she is toasted and burned’),” among other disrespectful remarks.
Published May 3, 2021, 2:20 PM
Bernadette Belle Ong, Singapore’s bet to this year’s Miss Universe pageant reveals she is also Pinoy.
In her Up Close video for Miss Universe posted on their Facebook page she said, “I actually came from the Philippines. I was born there up until the time I was 11 years old. In between that I was also living in Hong Kong for a year or two…”
She also mentioned how she “was able to appreciate different roots of me being Filipino-Chinese but also being immigrated in some very modernized yet traditional-centric community which is what Singapore really is.”
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