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How Men Think

Beauty Queen Exposes The Ugly Side of Finland With “Slanted Eyes” Photo

How Men Think

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4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Miss Finland 2025 has been stripped of her title after a photo was posted of her pulling her eyes and smiling with the caption “Eating with a Chinese."  But the controversy grew even bigger when several members of the Finnish Parliament recreated their own, exceptionally racist photos and posted them online in solidarity with Miss Finland. The Prime Minister has apologized to Asian nations, but now there is talk of a tourism boycott and an even larger conversation about racism in this world. 

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0:45.5

Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, December 20th, and we are shaking our heads and our mouths are dropped

0:51.3

at an absolutely ridiculous story out of all places, Finland.

0:55.2

The country, the leader, has had to apologize to Asian countries, essentially all of them.

1:01.9

Why? Because of something a beauty pageant contestant did.

1:07.4

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs.

1:09.9

You pointed this story out to me,

1:11.0

and I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but this is nuts, folks, to explain what's going

1:16.4

on. A Miss Finland lost her title because of a social media post. Fair to say? Yes, she was

1:23.5

Miss Finland. Her name is Sarah Jop. I'm trying to figure out how to say it. It's Jopse.

1:29.8

Okay. Jopsa. Let's go with that. Sarah Jopsa. But we'll just refer to her as the former

1:34.0

Miss Finland from now on. But it's one thing to read about what she did in the social media post

1:40.1

and to hear her, I'm sorry, lame defense of why she said she did it.

1:44.4

Oh, let's give her a break.

1:45.4

But when you look at the photo that was posted and then you look at what happened afterwards,

1:50.2

it actually is something you have to see to believe because you can't believe.

1:54.6

At least I can't.

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