In my rhet and comp class, and all over campus really, I'm hearing a lot about Miley Cyrus's VMA performance and more recently, the Miss America pageant.
Miley is getting a ton of criticism for her performance because it pushed boundaries, in a manner of speaking. Of course I have a problem with her objectification of women and her use of black people and culture as a marketing gimmick, but I think I'm most disappointed in her for forgetting a huge part of her demographic, pre-teen girls.
As someone who grew up watching Hannah Montana and seeing Miley as a role model, I have to say that I feel betrayed by her complete turn around. When I was younger, I thought of her as someone I'd want as my friend. Maybe she wasn't the best actress or singer but she was dressing appropriately and making pretty sound decisions (besides breaking up with Nick Jonas; honestly what sane person would do that? I'll keep that seventh grade crush with me forever). Now that she's gone off the deep end, she's hardly a good example for any young girl, or human for that matter. Yet, a large part of her audience continues to be pre-teen girls. They don't know any better. She used to be normal. She used to have the best of both worlds. Is she not just expressing herself creatively?
Miley has completely neglected that part of her audience and her inappropriate behavior may drive a generation to act out in extremes the way she appears to be doing.
Now a brief comment on Miss New York being crowned the most recent Miss America.
You go girl! You may be taking a lot of twitter crap and criticism from other social media sites but you have my support!
America is supposed to be known as the melting pot right? We're supposed to be accepting of all races and nations. There will be prejudices of course but the point is to move past them. How many of you are of Irish descent? Do you know how hated the Irish were when they first immigrated to the US? Now, most Caucasians you meet have Irish blood.
So why not skip a step and just accept people from the beginning? Being white is not a characteristic of being American. To those of you naysayers, our President is black; White is a minority majority; and most of us are fine with it. The country is moving forward. You'd better move with it or you'll get left behind.
Miss New York is of Indian descent. To me, there's no one else who's more American.
Rock on Nina Davuluri!
Sincerely,
Mare
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