the World champions

Now that I decided to talk about women it is more important than ever that I write em estrangeiro in order that most people do not understand what I am talking about, specially women.

In this post I hinted that Catholic women are more attractive than Protestant women and, for men at least, this is a great advantage of Catholic countries relative to their Protestant counterparts. Men in Catholic countries do have the most pretty women of Western Civilization.

It might be objected that my evaluation is culturally biased. I think it is not. There is ample evidence that women from Catholic countries are the most beautiful in the West, if not in the whole World. I will now move to cite an important piece of such evidence letting the reader know at the same time how I got at it.

It was some six or seven years ago. I went with my family to a short vacation in Puerto Rico. The first day in the evening I was waiting at the hotel entrance for my family in order for us to go out for dinner. As I waited, a lot of people was walking around. Suddenly, I noticed almost in shock that nowhere in the World had I ever seen so many beautiful women per square feet. Almost simultaneously, a bell rang on my mind: "And the winner is ... Miss Puerto Rico".

I approached the doorman at the hotel and discreetly asked him:

- Would you please tell me how many Miss Universe winners do you have from Puerto Rico?

His reaction was prompt:

-Oh sir, we are the World champions at it. We have got four of them! Actually the last Miss Universe was elected Miss Puerto Rico precisely in this hotel.

(Meanwhile, they got another one in 2006. It's now five).

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The doorman's answer turned out to be wrong, except in relative terms, when the number of winners is measured against population or the size of the country (Puerto Rico, a semi-autonomous state within the US has a population of four million people and a size one seventh of Portugal). The country with most winners is actually the USA with 7, followed by Puerto Rico, 5 and Venezuela, 4.

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However, the dominance of Catholic beauties among the winners remains true. Of all the 56 Miss Universe winners between 1952 and 2007, more than half (24) came from predominantly Catholic countries, even though Catholic population represents only 20% of World's population. South America alone, the centre of Catholicism in the World, contributed with 36% of all the winners (20 out of 56), by far the continent that produces more beauties in the whole World.