It’s a shame that in the world of horse-flesh beauty pageants some nations still require the sham of an academic requirement.  Poor little Miss Vietnam got axed because she had not completed high school.  How much smarts does it take to be able to say…”I want to work for world peace and saving the environment.”  

But that pride crumbled after government investigators found that the new Miss Vietnam, crowned on Aug. 31, hadn’t finished high school.

Tran Thi Thuy Dung

Shocked, Ministry of Culture officials stripped 18-year-old Tran Thi Thuy Dung of her most coveted prize — the right to represent Vietnam at this month’s Miss World contest in Johannesburg. Government officials in Hanoi are now trying to find a suitable candidate to send to South Africa. So far, they’ve drawn a blank.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122601994910807137.html

They state that Britain and Australia don’t have any minimum educational requirement for their national beauty contests, while the U.S. gives beauty queens six months to finish high school after their first competition.  In a country where there are so few high school graduates, Vietnam is setting the bar too high. 

Come on, be truthful.  Who gives are darn about academic accomplishments in a beauty pageant?