Miss America crowns 1st winner of Indian descent

Nina Davuluri is American. She just happens to be of Indian descent. In fact, she’s the first Indian-American to be crowned Miss America.

But the tweets that followed the 2014 pageant in Atlantic City on Sunday night didn’t focus on how it’s the second consecutive year that a Miss New York has taken the crown.

“Well they just picked an Indian for Miss America.

The 24-year-old Davuluri, who’s from Syracuse, competed on a platform of “Celebrating Diversity through Cultural Competency.” For the talent portion, she performed a classical Indian dance fused with Bollywood moves

Source :CNN

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