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Indian-American woman wins Miss America, 'Muricans think she's an Arab and go mad

Foxhound38

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/a-lot-of-people-are-very-upset-that-an-indian-american-woman

Funny and tragic in equal measure. Does make me wonder how actual Arab-Americans get by with the amount of ignorance thrown their way over there...

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c_man

So it's a news report on twitter comments? Yeah that's representative.

bizmark

313 million Americans are ignorant says shining light of non ignorance on a message board more at 11

The Backwards Man

There's ignorant people in every lane, townland, village, town, county, state and province in the world. Always was, always will be. It's a pity that they have enough intelligence to utilise social media, but in a way it's good as it shows them up for what they are.

ScumLord

I don't know what they're all complaining about, it's about time a native American won.

conor2469

Miss Kansas "Loves tattoos". I agree, that is a real American......

The Backwards Man

conor2469 wrote: »

Miss Kansas "Loves tattoos". I agree, that is a real American......

She looks like Kurt Russell in a blonde wig.

Foxhound38

bizmark wrote: »

313 million Americans are ignorant says shining light of non ignorance on a message board more at 11

You fail to see the distinction between Americans and 'Muricans - this thread is concerned with the latter, some of whom have been making a holy show of themselves on social media over this

Fratton Fred

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't know what they're all complaining about, it's about time a native American won.

Reminds me of the Diwali party my niece's school had. The kids were told to wear traditional Indian dress.

My sister had a call from a panicking mother, she could only find a Pocahontas costume, did she think that would be OK?

H3llR4iser

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There's ignorant people in every lane, townland, village, town, county, state and province in the world. Always was, always will be. It's a pity that they have enough intelligence to utilise social media, but in a way it's good as it shows them up for what they are.

You need no intelligence whatsoever to use social media, they are catered and crafted to be as accessible as they get. Put a 6 years old, barely able to read/write, in front of Facebook or Twitter and see how long it takes for them to figure things out.

The big problem with social media is exactly that: they provide the perfect vehicle for ignorant and stupid keyboard warriors to spread their venom, with no fear of any backlash or consequences. 99 out of 100 of the lowlifes posting these comments would never have such discussion face to face with other people, or in a public place.

On the other side, I agree that in a way this also provides a very good picture of what many people think for real, without the facade they need in day-to-day interaction. Mankind is screwed, bit time.

Jeju

She does look rather upset by it all.

Morag

The american school system is pretty crap and there are vested interests in keeping people thinking that the majority of Americans are white and speak english and those are the people who should represent America.

ScumLord

H3llR4iser wrote: »

The big problem with social media is exactly that: they provide the perfect vehicle for ignorant and stupid keyboard warriors to spread their venom, with no fear of any backlash or consequences.

I wouldn't call it venom, that gives too much weight to their ramblings. It's more like walking into a room that you know has a big annoying blue bottle fly in it.

Seaneh

Moral of this story.

The loudest people in Social Media/Society, tend to be the biggest ****ing idiots.

vicwatson

Only in America would the Americans give out about an American winning Miss America wha' !

Nodin

Foxhound38 wrote: »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/a-lot-of-people-are-very-upset-that-an-indian-american-woman

Funny and tragic in equal measure. Does make me wonder how actual Arab-Americans get by with the amount of ignorance thrown their way over there...

....tbh, if we treated posts on social media along the lines of 'some gobshite in the pub said....' we'd be better off.

clairefontaine

Im happy a New Yorker won. Two years in a row!

tin79

You lost me at "Muricans"

I hate that crap

Muise...

tin79 wrote: »

You lost me at "Muricans"

I hate that crap

what about Injun-Muricans?

biko

They really don't like people from Indiana over there.

metaoblivia

I'm getting so much second-hand embarrassment from reading those tweets. My favorite was "Egypt dancing? This is America" in response to the Bollywood routine she danced. Those tweets are awful, but also hilarious because how fcuking stupid do you have to be? But then they make me sad because people the world over will read them and it will just reinforce negative stereotypes of Americans. It's funny how some of the most self-proclaimed patriotic people do the most damage to the US reputation worldwide.

FTA69

There is of course a strain of thick, ignorant racism of this variety that runs through American society but are we any different in Ireland? Lee Chin, an Irishman and dual GAA star of Chinese heritage has come in for buckets of abuse while playing the national games; is that any different than the abuse being thrown at your one? There are stupid bigots in every country in the world, it's not limited to the USA.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gaa-star-lee-chin-speaks-out-about-racist-abuse-to-stop-it-for-younger-players-26868570.html

tin79

Muise... wrote: »

what about Injun-Muricans?

I am fine with that. Proceed.

Elbaston

Sort of an irony spiral going on there.
I mean theres a lot of Americans, to tar them all as ignorant would be ignorant.

That said their redneck community provide disproportionate lulz, I love them for it.

Their Obama-phone section too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixnYHSYzHtk

Hande hoche!

The Backwards Man wrote: »

She looks like Kurt Russell in a blonde wig.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m96tbbl1861qi66kho1_500.gif

http://tribktla.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/misskansas632.jpg

Muise...

Elbaston wrote: »

Sort of an irony spiral going on there.
I mean theres a lot of Americans, to tar them all as ignorant would be ignorant.

That said their redneck community provide disproportionate lulz, I love them for it.

Their Obama-phone section too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixnYHSYzHtk

quite. Isn't it spironic?

rabjoshu

What about the American-Indians?

Grayson

This is a country that distrusts atheists more than rapists.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-12-10/religion-atheism/51777612/1

They really don't like anything that's different whether it be belief, skin colour or anything at all.

crockholm

Can somebody please tell Bobby Jindal (R-LA) that all white americans now hate him and wish he would go back to Egypt, or do we treat it as some dopes mouthing off?

MonaPizza

The Miss Kansas was a total white trash skank with that horrible tattoo.

Overheal

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