Nina Davuluri made history hours ago as the first Indian American to be crowned Miss America. She is gorgeous, does a mean Bollywood routine, and plans to become a doctor. Move over spelling bees, #DesiPride is gonna rock beauty pageants in malls across America.
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Dude / September 17, 2013
High time that brown women become the beauty norm and racism become a thing of the past..
The browning of America – by 2020 the USA – a country of immigrant that is proud of its mixed cultural heritage will have more brown people that white ones – Hispanic, native American, African American of course, Carribean Asia-Pacific .. USA can teach the racists of the world a thing or two..
A country of immigrants with Native Americans / Indians as they one were called on reservations..
She is brown and beautiful, from SOUTH INDIA – Andra Pradesh – and can teach white skin – mad South Asia a thing or too.
We need creams to get browner, fair and lovely should be put in the DUSTBIN! BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL!
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China Doll / September 17, 2013
Dead on Dude, Sri Lanka and South Asia needs a Black is BEAUTIFUL advertizing campaign!
Miss USA can teach the wanna-be white bollywood lasses including Ash and Susmita Sen a thing or two.
South Indian women (and Sri Lanka is South India- like it or not!) need to be the beauty norm in South Asia..
Time to create a bonfire with all the skin-whitening products, in the supermarket shelves. .They are full of DEADLY chemicals and hazardous to health and well being..
The craze to be white skinned is also causing higher levels of Multiple Sclerosis which is indicated for Vitamin D deficiency- because of SUNLIGHT (VITAMIN D DEPRIVATION.) Silly women who are told that they will get “dark” if they go in the sun!
The “fair and lovely: advertizing should be stopped (like imported milk powder in lieu of fresh milk advertising) should also be stopped. Back to mother nature is the way forward for DEVELOPMENT!
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Jason Vorhees / September 17, 2013
On what ground you state that Sri Lanka is “South India”?
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Zami / September 17, 2013
http://www.darkisbeautiful.in/ – Its already been setup :)
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Amarasiri / September 17, 2013
Zami,
Thanks. Here is more.
https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/fair-and-handsome-and-shah-rukh-khan-take-down-discriminatory-ad-lead-the-change-disbcampaign
“Fair and Handsome” and Shah Rukh Khan: We don’t want ZYADA (more); we’ve had ENOUGH of fairness products and “unfair” advertising. #disbcampaign #darkisbeautiful
In the new “Fair and Handsome” ad, Shah Rukh Khan tosses a tube of fairness cream to a young fan. In the next scene, the boy’s skin grows whiter, his smile brightens and his hopes rise. The message: Fair skin is a prerequisite for success.
Such irresponsible advertising propagates discrimination among men, women— and even children.
Actress Nandita Das has observed, “Now the insecurities of men are also surfacing with equal number of fairness products for them. Such pressure and so little public debate around it!”
Now is the time to let “Fair and Handsome” and brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan know that our country is ready to shed age-old biases and let every person feel comfortable in their own skin.
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Sammy / September 17, 2013
By the way Aishwarya Rai is South Indian (Tulu speaking from Karnataka). There are some fair South Indian women as well. Sushmita Sen is Bengali and Bengal has dark skinned women as well.
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Rod Atkinds / September 17, 2013
Lord Budda is a Bengali Man…. So Sinhala race from Bangaldesh… now they are the cheap labours in the world unfortunatly… Lord Buddah Born place is Bangaladesh a land of Curse
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Tessie M / September 17, 2013
ahahaha. real funny. When did Sri Lanka become a part of South India? However I do agree with the rest of your comment. I have seen so many beautiful brown girls from South Asia and have had the opportunity to be friends with some of them too.
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Chris Columbus / September 20, 2013
Digressing off topic – China Doll you seem to have missed out on geography at school !
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Netizen / September 17, 2013
Way to go!
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Percy Jilmart / September 17, 2013
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Black maybe beautiful to some, but not to others.
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len / September 18, 2013
She was born in Syracuse, New York not in SOUTH INDIA – Andhra Pradesh she is American. Dose ever thing has to be about colour and race.
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peyasena / September 17, 2013
Black President and now Indian Miss USA. See Gota, Mahindha, BBS, JHU, Sinhale Ravaya etc, this is the reason America is mighty and strong. So do well only Sinhala Buddhist and go to hell all of you.
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weera / September 18, 2013
Well said. US and Canada (North America) is a melting pot for all races in the world. Those US bashers and hypocrites (Politicos) in Sri Lanka have no clue or trying to deceive the Sri Lankan voters about the freedom, human rights, religious freedom and democracy people enjoy in these predominantly Christian countries. One has to look at the number of Buddhist Temples (Sri Lankan,Thai,Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese), Hindu Temples and Mosques scattered all over North America to understand the true meaning of freedom and democracy.
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Toots / September 17, 2013
Ms. Davuluri is so much classier and sexier than her tattoo blond competition.. seems that the judges were right!
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nelum gamage / September 17, 2013
Brown is beautiful.
Beautiful inside and out!
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Gamma / September 17, 2013
Imagine!!! In SriLanka we think Sri Lankans if they are non Sinhala and Buddhist are not eligible for any thingspecially Moda wansa
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Sumana Rajasinghe / September 17, 2013
This serves as a lesson to the Uruwansas, Balu senas, Uru meeyas, Hela wansas, Ravana Ballas who do not believe in unity and diversity. All these headless uneducated, sex starved balusenas want sri lanka to be just Sinhala Buddhists without brains. Genuine Buddhists are few and far between and they are real human beings with hearts of gold and we find such true Buddhists living in Colombo and the villages. Many true genuine Buddhists are so fed up with the various balusenas rearing their ugly heads to rape, massacre, maime, destroy other religious values that they are naturally converting to other religions.
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Amarasiri / September 17, 2013
Sumana Rajasinghe,
Excellent comment. We all need to be very happy and congratulate this young Indian American lady, the new Miss America, who is intelligent is such as asset to America and promoting diversity, the reality of the world.
If you listen, she is promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, needed by a modern state for progress and economic survival.
Now compare that to what the religious nuts, Mullahs, Ulama, Monks, etc who want maintain their hegemony over the people are doing?
1. No Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. All you need is the Quran, memorized, and the Pali Gathas memorized so that they can chant all day long.
See what happened to Islamic Science when the religion took over or was promoted over Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
The Erosion of Progress by Religions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxTMUTOz0w&list=PL366C37FFC2760B08
Uploaded on Sep 3, 2010
Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium, discusses how Islamic fundamentalist destroyed the enlightenment era of the Middle East and why we should be concerned today.
How many scientist and engineers did they the religious nuts make? ZERO, BINDU/
Many of those Uruwamsas, Balu Senas and their Balu followers do not follow the Buddhism as taught by Buddha in the Tipitaka. They are following, Maras, and the racism, that is opposite to diversity.
The current President, Mahinda, the Coward, the Baya Gulla, Rajapaksa is allowing the idiots to run rampant and the >Monks” run Amok.
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Carol A. Teldala / September 18, 2013
I agree entirely with Sumana. It is in our interest to get closer to India. We have so much common with them. In my several visits I find they are very friendly to us. These Booruwansas and the lot are
trouble-makers who get a living keeping other people at their throats.
Take away their anti-Indian rhetoric and these uneducated rascals have nothing to offer the public.
Carol A. Teldala
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Sanjay Karuna / September 19, 2013
I like Karola Theldala with my Rice and Parippu.
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Sunil Perera / October 5, 2013
Well said Sumana Ranasinghe,
Never trust these so called Medamulana wearing white sarong Wolves talking Lamb Bast…ds. Never trust even a blind cat from that area.
Same with the Yellow robe Ganayas. The worst racist born 1983 desha premi Kada Kadapan crook liars in the world. The crooks ruined our country ever since we got Independence. Only deserve to clean toilets in Middle East.
That’s why Sir.John said SWRD Banda not to unleash these crazy dogs he tied. But the buffalo Banda unleashed them and paid the ultimate price.
Now the monkey given 18 Amendment hand grenade is doing the same.
Soon the Kallathoni community will teach the Buffalo monkeys a lesson.
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mnsmart / September 17, 2013
Our babes are applying chinese whitening creams & lotions (of course just Bleach) to becvome white & they look like skinned broiler chicken….
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Fair N Square / September 21, 2013
LOL….. or like boiled shrimps…
on a side note
interesting to note Indians are claiming her as an Indian..ask her, she’d tell u she is AMERICAN without batting an eye lid… coz she was born in USA… and not in India… though she has Indian roots…. Some people ACQUIRE citizenship.. namely Gotabaya,Chamal and the likes…. She is a NATIVE, as in born in the country and is a citizen thus….
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Leo76 / September 17, 2013
Who cares man, it is just a beauty pageant. If you all think that this emancipates women and breaks the glass ceiling – you must be on crack!
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Sunil Perera / October 5, 2013
Better than the fake show off make up joker telling lies to Al Jazeera after drinking wine at the UN.
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Goraka / September 17, 2013
When you sell your body to tittilate others, I call it PROSTITUTING!
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Javi / September 17, 2013
Men are ugly ;)
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Fair N Square / September 21, 2013
ditto…
Women have been used as sex objects….mostly by capitalists. Why do u have to have a semi naked woman to sell a car or even a box of chocolates….? Most women wont care of throwing away their clothes for a few minutes of fame… or $$$$…. How many of the MEN would want their daughters, sisters, mothers to be semi naked in front of a heap of sex craving vultures?
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Sunil Perera / October 5, 2013
Like your mother and your wife.
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roshan perera / September 17, 2013
sorry china doll to correct you. but sushmita sen is dark skinned. and so is diana hayden and lara dutta,all international beauty queens from india.and they are really proud of their dusky complexions.
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Wyatt K / September 18, 2013
She is not Indian, she is an American just as much as I am…. She comes from Syracuse. Why people are making hay about her Indian heritage is beyond me. She is a very pretty lady and will represent the US well as Miss America.
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Amarasiri / September 21, 2013
Wyatt,
“She is not Indian, she is an American just as much as I am”
I though she was African, as all of us are.
The scientific proof is given below.
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
Since its launch in 2005, National Geographic’s Genographic Project has used advanced DNA analysis and worked with indigenous communities to help answer fundamental questions about where humans originated and how we came to populate the Earth.
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Fathima Fukushima / September 18, 2013
This is against the teachings of Islam.
Ayisha was only 9 years old when the Messenger of God (PBUH) married her.
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I am no muslim / September 18, 2013
When asked, an ardent Muslim tells me that there is nothing wrong PBUH Muhammad marrying Ayisha at 9, because she has grown up to be a woman by 9 and as God said, the duty of women is to bore as many children as they could. Today following their PBUH Muhammad many an old Arab sods go to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to buy 9 year olds cheep.
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lal / September 18, 2013
There are many prettier girls in Sri Lanka than this Indian-American Miss America. This is a “fix” to make dum witted Indians to feel good about US, and push them along their “Strategic Partnership”. While they celebrate this “crowning” the “Vultures” will be busy selling dum witted Indians billions worth of obsolete weaponry and, useless “free trade” deals.
Don’t put our girls through these obscene parades which ridicule women and feminity.
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Hooligan / September 18, 2013
One needs to have beautiful eyes, to see and understand beauty, it those with beautiful eyes that are able to say something positively good about another human being irrelevant of caste creed religion or culture. These people see good things materializing all the time.
Those who are so negative must be very sad people with so much despair in the lives, with narrow stereo typed mindsets these people will never have anything good to say even about themselves. All the ever see the negative side of others they sure must be very miserable – Suggest they listen to this song “Strange and Beautiful”…
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Devika / September 21, 2013
Take some geography lessons. You will find that SRI LANKA and INDIA are SEPARATE STATES.
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Rama / September 29, 2013
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Rama / September 30, 2013
ariyawathi the chingala maid who who was physically abused in saudi arabia is much prettier than ms america.
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