September 13, 2005

Thai delicacy

What a world we live in, where someone with the name Angela McKay can become Miss Thailand...

AN Australian girl who believed she didn't have the looks to make it as a Sydney model has been crowned Miss Thailand.

Angela McKay, 20, grew up with her Thai mother and Australian father in Margaret River, WA.

She won a modelling competition at 16 – as Girlfriend magazine's "face of 2000" – but when she moved to Sydney found the market "a bit difficult", her aunt Jill McKay said, so she headed overseas two years ago – landing work with a modelling agency in Bangkok.

Apparently she was told by someone in Sydney she didn't have the looks to become a model.

They must have smoked some bad granola.

I guess it just goes to prove this, eh....

Posted by Quentin George at September 13, 2005 05:49 PM
Comments

Why do you think the term Eurasian is meaningless? Have you been to Hong Kong! Plenty of girls with European fathers and Asian mothers. It's great.

Even the MTV hosts in HK are Euroasian.

Posted by: Engels at September 13, 2005 11:52 PM

I just hate the term.

Are Russians Eurasian? What about Turks?

Posted by: Aidan at September 14, 2005 08:21 AM

Definitions change/evolve. There's no confusion, when you leave the textbooks, if somebody uses the term Euroasian, well not for me... It's all about context and using your imagination.

And what term would you recommend?

Posted by: Engels at September 15, 2005 12:19 AM

I should note that originally Eurasian referred to he mixed British-Indian offspring in the Raj. The darker one were termed Eurasian, while the fairer ones were termed Anglo-Indian.

What term would I use? No idea.

Posted by: Aidan at September 15, 2005 08:06 AM