While Yuen was growing up, the Chinese Benevolent Association had held annual Miss Chinese Jamaican pageants, but such "openly racialised" events ceased in 1962 after charges from Afro-Jamaican journalists that the ethnic pride on display there was "unpatriotic" and "un-Jamaican".
Sementara Yuen tumbuh dewasa, Chinese Benevolent Association telah mengadakan kontes tahunan Miss Chinese Jamaican, namun acara yang "secara terbuka rasis" tersebut berhenti pada tahun 1962 setelah tuduhan dari wartawan Afro-Jamaika bahwa kebanggaan etnis yang dipamerkan di sana "tidak patriotik" dan "Jamaika".