Monday, September 16, 2013

Indian American Wins Ms. America Pageant- Umair Nasser

Nina Davuluri was crowned Ms. America this past week, and this event marks world history in many ways. Nina is the first person of Indian descent to win Ms. America, also the first person to perform Bollywood as her talent portion. Many negative comments came about as a result of her win. Many were by ordinary civilians who don't support the decision, but some were made via twitter by people of high esteem such as: Tod Starnes, of fox news, and Questlove.

It is quite sad to see that someone who is a citizen of this country, and was born here, is still not considered an American in the eyes of her fellow citizens. As someone who is a first generation American-born, this issue hits home for me. This also shows how a majority of America is not completely comfortable with diversity and plularism, and as a country that is suppossed to be the "melting pot," it doesn't feel like people who have recently immigrated are welcome. What many people forget, is that once upon a time, their family immigrated to this country, and were new here as well. (Unless they are native American of course)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/09/16/miss-america-nina-davuluri-brushes-off-racist-remarks/2819533/
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3 comments:

  1. BookerTStudentSeptember 16, 2013 at 9:18 PM

    Felicia Padilla 5th period: I have been hearing alot about this over social media lately. One of the main things that upsets me about this issue is that some people believe that only one race can be beautiful. Many people believe that a stereotypical American girl has to win miss America. The beauty of the Miss America pageant is that everyone participating is beautiful. Miss American should be a place to show the diversity in our culture.

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  2. Haley RoseSeptember 16, 2013 at 11:27 PM

    I love the fact that she won! It's annoying how other people can't be excited for her just because of her race. I do agree with both of you on the issue that most people have a certain ideal of American Pageant beauty. By her winning though, hopefully this will go to show that it doesn't have to be like that anymore.

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  3. LeslieSeptember 17, 2013 at 8:19 PM

    This is incredibly exciting but yeah, also really sad. We should all be pretty psyched that she won, but people are still wasting time to gripe and mope and it's ridiculous. All of our families started off as immigrants and people who act self-righteous because theirs happened to be here a little longer make no sense

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