Event Lin: Pageant and Chinese Immigrant

event lin: But you wouldn t know it from the organization shameful treatment of Anastasia Lin, the Scarborough beauty queen who for the second consecutive year was chosen to represent Canada at the event, according to Toronto Star. Lin is a Chinese immigrant who has always used her pageant platforms to raise awareness of human rights abuses in her homeland. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Thu., Dec. 15, 2016 The Miss World pageant claims it cares less about how its contestants look than about what they have to say. For this, she has paid a price. It didn t work. Not only was she prohibited from participating in last year pageant in China due to her advocacy, but Chinese security officials attempted to intimidate her into silence by threatening her father, who still lives there. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.