Miss America 2014

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<p>America’s ignorance rears it’s ugly head yet again. Twitter exploded after Miss New York was crowned. </p>

<p>[A</a> Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant](<a href=“A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant”>A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant)</p>

<p>[?She?s</a> a Terrorist?: Many Upset That Indian-American Woman Won ?Miss America? Pageant | Mediaite](<a href=“http://www.mediaite.com/tv/come-on-many-upset-that-indian-american-woman-won-miss-america-pageant/]?She?s”>Miss America | Mediaite)</p>

<p>The outcry, in my opinion, truly shows the ignorance and racism still out there.</p>

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<p>Is she not an American Citizen?</p>

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<p>What would give you that idea? She is.</p>

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<p>She was born in Syracuse, NY. People are stupid and racist. Surely that’s not surprising …</p>

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<p>What Youdon’tsay said.</p>

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<p>Not surprising, but depressing.</p>

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<p>You know, I’ve only seen positive things about her (and about the remarkable Miss Kansas). Yet another reason NOT to participate in the inane and often vicious thing that is twitter.</p>

<p>Just a more efficient method for the stupid, ignorant, and hateful to spread their bile, which would otherwise be ignored.</p>

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<p>IMHO, those of Indian descent are among the most attractive, so the win makes sense to me. It is still a beauty pageant, isn’t it?</p>

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<p>“What would give you that idea? She is.”</p>

<p>The way she is being portrayed, Arab, terrorist etc. I was not sure if a non-American (permanent resident or Alien residing in US) could be in the pageant.</p>

<p>I wonder how much worse it would be if she were a muslim. From her name, she seems to be a Hindu but could also be a Christian.</p>

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<p>Seems like holder was right when he said we still need to talk about race in this country. </p>

<p>I’m pretty disappointed by all the racial stuff these days. Our diversity is what’s made us great in the past. </p>

<p>We really need to get back to that melting pot thing we talked about on schools back in the day. Seriously</p>

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<p>Occasionally, I watch the beauty pageants: Miss America, Miss Universe, etc. Last night, I told my H, the following contestants would definitely be in the top ten: Ms. NY, Ms. California, Ms. Florida and Ms. Texas. After Miss NY performed her talent, I told my H she will win because I don’t think there’s been an American-Indian who won the title yet and her Bollywood dance was impressive and unique. After the talent show, I had to eliminate Ms. Texas from the top five. Then I found out last year’s winner was a NY rep. so I thought for a moment that NY might not be able to get the title back to back. However, Nina’s beauty and talent provided a refreshing change to reflect the multifaceted feature of an American jewel.</p>

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<p>The amazing thing, texaspg, is that is all being said despite the fact that she is a native-born US citizen. And from what I’ve heard, she IS being “accused” of being Muslim (which is apparently against someone’s “rules”), just on account of her looking, you know, like “them.”</p>

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<p>Krlilies–Indian-American, not American-Indian.</p>

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<p>Why on earth are a few tweets by ignoramuses–who also say that Obama isn’t an American, for doG’s sake–being picked up and repeated? Why give these bozos more of a platform?</p>

<p>What is the population of the US? What percentage made these tweets? In what way does this qualify as an “outcry”?</p>

<p>Don’t feed the trolls.</p>

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<p>People are idiots, I’m not surprised. Many traditionalists aren’t familiar with history so much.</p>

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Oh, yes! She did wonderfully! She stood out from the run-of-the-mill contestants. It was, I guess you could say, refreshing (?). </p>

<p>This is not surprising, but every time something of this nature bubble to the surface, I’m disappointed and made aware of how stupid some really are. How can people think India was responsible for 9/11? Do they even know what group we were at war with and what countries they were from?</p>

<p>It reminds me of the map test where participants were unable to locate countries or identify countries in relation to topics and events. </p>

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I think we’d see Youtube videos of people having conniptions!</p>

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<p>There will always be a bunch of stupid people. But by having the first black Miss America (Vanessa Wiliams, who later had to step down) and the first Indian-American Miss America, we are breaking barriers.</p>

<p>I’m not old enough to remember it first-hand, but Bess Meyerson was the first Jewish Miss America, in 1945. She had been pressured to change her name to something less “Jewish” and resisted. </p>

<p>This is the way barriers are broken. We are making progress – but we continue to be amazed that it takes so long!!</p>

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<p>I was thrilled with her win! I called it early. (maybe a little biased as my dh is from India and my children are half east Indian). Traditionally India does well in international pageants. They’re usually in the top 10. They’ve won miss universe twice and miss world 5 times. I’ve seen some ignorant racist banter with this win however. The most amusing are those claiming that the real Miss America is Miss Kansas (the military woman) that she was robbed! Did they not hear her pretending to sing opera, she had to have scored at or near the bottom with that performance? Talent was 35 percent of the score, could they not do the math? As the mother of a violinist I felt the most for Miss Minnesota. She had to play and be judged by Joshua Bell, one of the greatest violinist of our time. That aspect alone had to be terrifying.</p>

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<p>You are definitely right about that, VeryHappy. This is the way barriers are broken. Just recently in one of my seminars we were discussing on whether America really is a melting pot and what the basis of our society was. We were all able to come to an agreement that rather than a melting pot, America is more of a salad in which the different flavors and textures compliment each other. Of course there’ll be that rotten bit of lettuce.</p>

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<p>If we can move on to general snark … all the singers were bad!</p>