Truth is, you could take her and reduce the pigment in her skin and she'd look like any other model. Busty, thin at the waste, tall and slender. Don't get me wrong, I like all of those qualities myself but it would be far more of a paradigm shift if a woman that was slightly overweight and short won.There have been several articles highlighting some of the racist responses to Davuluri’s win on social media, however, such an offensive array can conceivably be assembled for any event.
Thank you for pointing this out, I think it says more about the media-outlest that run this type of thing than it does American's in general. It's a small minority of people that 1. care about this competition and 2. care about her ethnicity.
Exactly, I hint on that here-- "Can we really talk about her representing diverse beauty standards, when the selection process of Miss America contains a bikini competition that privileges very specific aesthetic qualities, regardless of skin tone and heritage?"