What not everyone watching the Miss America pageant appeared to realize is that Nina Davuluri is American — or they just chose not to. "How the f--k does a foreigner win miss America? She is a Arab! #idiots," one man tweeted just after the first winner of Indian descent was crowned Sunday night. "If you're #MissAmerica you should have to be American," another woman wrote.
"9/11 was 4 days ago and she gets miss America?" chimed another man who later likened her to a photo of a Middle Eastern man wielding a firearm. The 24-year-old from Fayetteville, New York says she has always viewed herself as ‘first and foremost American.’
A second man appeared to agree while writing on his Twitter feed: "So miss america is a terrorist."
In consequence, the 24-year-old from Fayetteville, New York, near Syracuse, spent part of her first press conference acknowledging the hate-spewed comments that followed.
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