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Habit7 wrote:^^^I dont make the rules
Habit7 wrote:African-American and Latino-American acceptance cool now.
Indian-American needs about 2 decades more.
teems1 wrote:Habit7 wrote:African-American and Latino-American acceptance cool now.
Indian-American needs about 2 decades more.
Indian-Americans are some of the most dull people you'll meet. Totally different from Indians in Canada.
All carbon copies of each other. Obsessed with education to become a doctor/lawyer/engineer/etc and then getting married to another Indian, and repeat the cycle.
zoom rader wrote: Wat u caste bia
Jake Amick@jakeamick5 Follow
How the firetruck does a foreigner win miss America? She is a Arab! #idiots
Jessica Ayres ⚓@JAyres15 Follow
I swear I'm not racist but this is America
Nate@NateBerard Follow
Asian or indian are you kiddin this is america omg
sarawhitton@sarawhitton Follow
this is America. not India
Savannah Dale@savannah_dale97 Follow
Miss New York is an Indian.. With all do respect, this is America
Luke Brasili@LukeBrasili Follow
9/11 was 4 days ago and she gets miss America?
anthony ridgeway@anthonytkr Follow
#MissAmerica ummm wtf?! Have we forgotten 9/11?
TriniAutoMart wrote:Some tweets on the subject...
These people are serious
she from trinidad? she looks old without the photoshop
wha foqin country she from anyways?
not hatin' boy. she doesnt sound like a trini.
the fact is she is not a true representation of the girls that are in T&T.
She looks Brazilian without the big bam bam. Awkward accent but still good looking.
Habit7 wrote:TriniAutoMart wrote:Some tweets on the subject...
These people are serious
Here are some quotes from tuners about Gabrielle Walcott in 2011 Ms. Universeshe from trinidad? she looks old without the photoshopwha foqin country she from anyways?not hatin' boy. she doesnt sound like a trini.the fact is she is not a true representation of the girls that are in T&T.She looks Brazilian without the big bam bam. Awkward accent but still good looking.
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Everybody knocking the Americans, but Trinis just as bad.
Habit7 wrote:
Everybody knocking the Americans, but Trinis just as bad.
To be fair, there was plenty of pushback from Americans of all hues, including the South Asian twitterati — who also included their share of party poopers. Like Anna John who unhelpfully noted:
What’s interesting is Miss America Nina Davuluri would never win pageants in South Asia because she’d be too dark to be considered beautiful & the same is true for all of those “Miss Indian American USA” pseudo-pageants held here, as well. No darkies allowed in winner’s circle.
Miss America Nina Davuluri after her win. AFP
That gorgeous chocolate may play as exotic in the West, but in India, we prefer our beauty queens strictly vanilla — preferably accessorised with blue contact lenses. In a behind the scenes account of the Miss India training for contestants, Susan Runkle observed:
I sat in on weekly individual sessions that dermatologist Dr. Jamuna Pai held with the contestants in order to examine their skin. Every single one of the young women was taking some sort of medication to alter her skin, particularly in colour, in the training programme in 2003. In a disturbingly casual manner, Dr. Pai emphasized the need for all the contestants to bleach their skin by prescribing the peeling agent Retin-A as well as glycolic acid and, in the case of isolated dark patches, a laser treatment.
When I asked Dr. Pai, who trained as a plastic surgeon in London, why fair skin was such a concern at the pageant, she offered the following explanation. “Fair skin is really an obsession with us, it’s a fixation. Even with the fairest of the fair, they feel they want to be fairer. It isn’t important anymore, because the international winners are getting darker and darker.You wouldn’t notice our obsession, because you have such beautiful white skin, but I feel it’s ingrained in us. When an Indian man looks for a bride, he wants one who is tall, fair and slim, and fairer people always get jobs first. Today, this is being disproved because of the success internationally of dark-skinned models, but we still lighten their skin here because it gives the girls extra confidence when they go abroad.”
God forbid, we compromise our cultural biases just to win an international beauty contest.
Besides, in India, our beauty pageants serve merely as a qualifying exam for Bollywood-dreaming contestants, none of whom would deign to pursue any other kind of career.
I cant believe people find she is a darky to me she is more a browning. No wonder bleaching products sell like they do.silent_riot wrote:Bess Darkie is bess!
wagonrunner wrote:similar to comments made when wendy won the Miss TnT and then miss universe titles.
she's following in some proven footsteps.
pioneer wrote:Nah it was Nasma Mohammed
I remember hearing the racist comments on the streets especially on triniscene back then
zoom rader wrote:pioneer wrote:Nah it was Nasma Mohammed
I remember hearing the racist comments on the streets especially on triniscene back then
yes it was Nasma. It still have ppl in trini and on tuner that think indos have no right in pageants.
Les Bain wrote:At the end of the day, your ass have to be real happy and sheltered to be motivated into social media protest by a friggin beauty pageant result.
Les Bain wrote:At the end of the day, your ass have to be real happy and sheltered to be motivated into social media protest by a friggin beauty pageant result.
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