Talk:Miss Belgium

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Controversy

I'm not sure if the fact that a beauty queen doesn't speak three languages is noteworthy. Looking at other countries with more than one official language (Switzerland, Canada, Finland or even Ireland), I'm sure we could find quite many beauty queens who have not spoken one of the official languages. What is noteworthy is the reaction, and there I was also surprised by the wording in the paragraph. I've read about the event in De Standaard and yes, it seems to have been a controversy in Flanders that she doesn't speak Nederlands. In the rest of Europe, however, this piece of news has been reported as yet another incident of Flemish nationalism. At least in Scandinavia and England, the controversy has been the behaviour of the audience, not the miss herself. JdeJ (talk) 15:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. The reason that I included the paragraph is obviously the link to the hot topic of the 2007 Belgian government formation. The reference [1], which was added by someone else, is probably a better indication of this than anything I added. Looking at the title and subtitle of that reference (and the mere fact of a contest winner being booed by the audience), I do personally believe that the word controversy is justified. If you disagree however, feel free to make amendments. I did not mean to choose the side of the audience or the Miss, I just tried to display the facts and explain the situation. Belection06 (talk) 18:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For reference I would like to put the link to the standaard website poll about 80% of the voters said that it couldn't (maybe wrong translation: they didn't agree with it) that miss Belgium didn't speak dutch [2] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.164.242.31 (talk) 19:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There should be a new paragraph on the controversy concerning Miss Belgium 2009 who has double nationality (belgian-turkish), who failed the Turkish Miss election and won in Belgium. One of the prerequisites being that she was supposed to speak french and dutch, but the candidate couldn't speak a word of dutch and spoke a bad french. source: http://www.rtlinfo.be/news/article/205948/0/?#BLOC_show_comments —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.223.232.64 (talk) 12:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]