Miss America 2014: Nina Davuluri

Anyone who was on Twitter as they watched the Miss America 2014 pageant saw a pretty ugly sight as the winner was announced. After Nina Davuluri received her crown, Twitter was flooded with hateful tweets in reaction to Davuluri's Indian-American heritage. A huge number of tweets, such as "So miss america is a terrorist" and "Miss America? You mean Miss 7-11”, were all over twitter. A lot of people were very upset that an Indian-American won the Miss America Pageant. This, in my opinion, only showed the ignorance of the tweeters who weren't educated enough to tell the difference between someone of Indian or Arab descent. This is like saying someone is Chinese when they are from Vietnam. There are big geographic and cultural differences. Although there were many hateful comments directed toward the new Miss America, there were supportive ones too. According to John Aravosis’ blog on the website AmericaBlog.com, titled “Nice to see Twitter rally for 1^st Indian-American Miss America after racist critics”, there were people that tried to be helpful and support the newly crowned winner, with comments such as “Did you people forget who the hell was in American before we were?? (Indians).” Thankfullly, there were appropriate, sympathetic comments, such as “Leave #MissAmerica alone people! Who cares if she's not white! She wouldn't have been crowned if they didn't think she deserved it!” and "Proud to see #MissAmerica is a graduate of University of Michigan.. The hatred buzzing around you is heart breaking.” Honestly, it shouldn't matter if Miss America is Indian, Chinese, Mexican, African, or of any other ethnicity. As an Indian American like the woman who won, I must say I am extremely heartened and grateful to see the posts in support of her and it gives me a great deal of hope for our future. 


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