Miss Balopa Queen Quest

Extract from beauty contest held at Baluan Island in December 2006 during the Balopa Cultural Festival.

The purpose of this enormous festival - the largest in the history of the island - was to revive old cultural traditions, get the bored youth involved in meaningful activities and thereby possibly attract international tourism and money to the island.

The video is part of a larger anthropological film project which deals with the ways Baluan people understand themselves, their culture and their possibilities in the new global reality. Apart from the extraordinary cultural performances the film focuses on several local debates, which evolved during the festival about what Baluan culture and tradition actually consists of and what it may and may not be used for.

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• Papua
• New
• Guinea
• culture
• tradition
• beauty
• contest
• tourism
• tourists
• money
• cultural
• festival
• globalisation
• miss
• world

[bludicko]

this women are more purer than that who joins miss universe

[XerxesVaia]

i remebr when i was a kid and used to cultural show and girls and women were not scared to show therrbreast noadays everyone wears a bra lol, get rid of the bra and stick to tradition, we wanna see some tits :)

[elfc060286]

One oft he girls said she wants to attract tourists & their money. yes they will come but for all the wrong reasons...there are perverts out there....

[elfc060286]

I dont mean to offend my wantoks. Culture is great and beautiful thing but if culture is used to satisfy the lustful desires of people then i guess change should take place. Rapists and sexual deviants are still out there!!! Maybe topless women are beautiful but if it incites men into sexual immorality then maybe its best to cover up!

[killerhook07]

love life, embrace diversity

[strugglingman1]

hem nao wantoks...wishes from solomons...this one hem showm real cultures blo iumi ...this is who we are....luv from me...

[planterzs]

rofl...titties hangin free. My kinda beauty pageant. :-o

[Cholomoine]

Very unique

[m2memorockz]

rait raitt

[Uchihaheyhi]

oo it PNG !!! yay

[mangimosbii]

Nice clip

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