OUTRAGE erupted in Fiji over the country's contestant for the Miss World 2012 beauty pageant - initially because she is only 16 but now because she does not look "native" enough.
Schoolgirl Torika Watters - who is of mixed European/ Fijian heritage - has been criticised since beating a bevy of full-blooded indigenous women to win the Miss World Fiji crown on the weekend.
Furthering the controversy, the competition was overseen by New Zealand supermodel Rachel Hunter and other non-Fijian judges.
The ugly race row has even included attacks on Watters' hair, with many claiming the model chosen to represent the island nation should have a "buiniga" - the local word used to describe the naturally-fuzzy Fijian hairstyle............... read more>>
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