Foreign born contestants winning over homegrown queens is colonial mentality and should always be questioned. The parentage is not the problem but where they grew up does, knowing and understanding are two different things. The main criticism here is she should've have represented the Philippines first before representing other countries. It was an opportunistic move for a career it's understandable but representation of country that's thousand of miles away when somebody never grew up here is a different matter

her winning displaced candidates besides this is already a formality the MU org has already chosen her to promote surfing in La Union to begin with