Jose Carlos Paras Won a Crown. Then Came Adulting.
He’s the first Filipino Mister National Universe. He’s also 22, a breadwinner, and just graduated — turns out a crown doesn’t skip you past adulting.
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Who Gets to Be Filipino Enough?
A Threads fight over whether Leylah Fernandez “counts” as Filipino reveals a pattern bigger than tennis — who gets rewarded, and who gets dragged, for how they handle a Filipino last name.