Shunned by Racism !!!

[S_O_C_O_M]

Indians are being racist, says New Zealand beauty queen​

October 13, 2010 17:56 IST

Melbourne: A 21-year-old woman, who won the Miss IndiaNZ beauty contest in New Zealand in April, is at the centre of a new racism row after being accused of not looking Indian enough.

The blonde, blue-eyed Jacinta Lal was booed and has been the subject of complaints to organisers from Indian spectators who, she says, are no better than Paul Henry, the controversial New Zealand TV host who mocked and mispronounced Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's name.

Henry resigned after India lodged a diplomatic protest with New Zealand against his comments.

Lal, whose father is a Fiji Indian and mother a New Zealander, won the central district Miss IndiaNZ contest in Wellington in April, but the row has only now been revealed after the Henry incident, The New Zealand Herald reported.

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Festival organiser Dharmesh Parikh said he had received complaints questioning Jacinta Lal's eligibility to be in the pageant.

Lal's supporters said they are disgusted at the way she was booed.

Lal said there was no difference between what Paul Henry said and the members of the Indian community who criticised her win.

"They are all wrong and should not say things like that," she said. "It was just appalling," said her boyfriend's mother, Serena Fiso.

"It was so disgraceful. We were just dumbfounded." Fiso put a photo of Jacinta on a Paul Henry fan site on Facebook on Monday.

"The Indian community seem to have taken great offence to (Henry's) comments but when I attended that beauty pageant, I saw huge offence coming back the other way," she said.

Lal said she had heard people saying that "I wasn't Indian looking enough to win the pageant".

"But despite those small-minded people that made those comments, there were many Indians who encouraged me to enter the pageant. So just because some narrow-minded people make a comment like that we can't assume that all Indians think the same way," she said.

This is the third racial row involving Indians or Indian-origin people in about a week's time in New Zealand.

New Zealand's India-origin Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand became a victim of racial slur when Henry asked whether he was a New Zealander or not.


Indians are being racist, says New Zealand beauty queen

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

This is incredible......she probably mistook cheering for booing......pity.....

 

[Spring Onion]

Indians are being racist, says New Zealand beauty queen​

October 13, 2010 17:56 IST

Melbourne: A 21-year-old woman, who won the Miss IndiaNZ beauty contest in New Zealand in April, is at the centre of a new racism row after being accused of not looking Indian enough.

The blonde, blue-eyed Jacinta Lal was booed and has been the subject of complaints to organisers from Indian spectators who, she says, are no better than Paul Henry, the controversial New Zealand TV host who mocked and mispronounced Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's name.

Henry resigned after India lodged a diplomatic protest with New Zealand against his comments.

Lal, whose father is a Fiji Indian and mother a New Zealander, won the central district Miss IndiaNZ contest in Wellington in April, but the row has only now been revealed after the Henry incident, The New Zealand Herald reported.

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Festival organiser Dharmesh Parikh said he had received complaints questioning Jacinta Lal's eligibility to be in the pageant.

Lal's supporters said they are disgusted at the way she was booed.

Lal said there was no difference between what Paul Henry said and the members of the Indian community who criticised her win.

"They are all wrong and should not say things like that," she said. "It was just appalling," said her boyfriend's mother, Serena Fiso.

"It was so disgraceful. We were just dumbfounded." Fiso put a photo of Jacinta on a Paul Henry fan site on Facebook on Monday.

"The Indian community seem to have taken great offence to (Henry's) comments but when I attended that beauty pageant, I saw huge offence coming back the other way," she said.

Lal said she had heard people saying that "I wasn't Indian looking enough to win the pageant".

"But despite those small-minded people that made those comments, there were many Indians who encouraged me to enter the pageant. So just because some narrow-minded people make a comment like that we can't assume that all Indians think the same way," she said.

This is the third racial row involving Indians or Indian-origin people in about a week's time in New Zealand.

New Zealand's India-origin Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand became a victim of racial slur when Henry asked whether he was a New Zealander or not.


Indians are being racist, says New Zealand beauty queen

So what is "looking Indian enough" is it South Indian facial features or North Indian?

Or those modelised look after thick layers of make up?

 

[New Vision]

Thats so unfair, if it were a girl with an Indian mother and white father, and she were a winner, then all would say winner who has Indian lineage or India roots, or Indian mother. I say if she has Indian lineage then she is Indian

 

[Indian9]

Thats so unfair, if it were a girl with an Indian mother and white father, and she were a winner, then all would say winner who has Indian lineage or India roots, or Indian mother. I say if she has Indian lineage then she is Indian

Right. It is so damn tough to decide what exactly defines "Indian looks".

Actually the persons who claimed that she does not look "Indian enough" are first class morons. People living in Tripura, Tamilnadu and Haryana are COMPLETELY different in their looks. So, what would they say if someone from either of these states enters a contest? Those bums don't know India!

 

[Spring Onion]

Thats so unfair, if it were a girl with an Indian mother and white father, and she were a winner, then all would say winner who has Indian lineage or India roots, or Indian mother. I say if she has Indian lineage then she is Indian

her father is said to be Fiji Indian.

 

[Peshwa]

"But despite those small-minded people that made those comments, there were many Indians who encouraged me to enter the pageant. So just because some narrow-minded people make a comment like that we can't assume that all Indians think the same way," she said.

This is what's most important to me in the article....

True talent is the beauty of her mind....The fact that she is able to keep an open mind and not stereotype as some Indians expect her to adhere to speaks a lot about her maturity....

We are proud of all our women....including you Ms. India NZ

PS: Im of the view that the "Booers" may have been relatives of the losing contestants trying to rationalize the reasons for their loss

 

[graphican]

We are listening this voice quite often now. I hope India would do something to soften this bad impression.

 

[friendly_troll96]

So what is "looking Indian enough" is it South Indian facial features or North Indian?

Or those modelised look after thick layers of make up?

haha you don't want to know what an 'indian enough' look is do you.

 

[Vassnti]

New Zealand is now contacting the Indian ambasador to make a formal complaint, questioning trade ties and suggesting NZ students studying in India return home, just kidding that would be silly wouldnt it.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

she looks great and definitely speaks like an Indian.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

she reminds me of her

Born to an Indian father and British mother.

 

[justanobserver]

^
Can you post a larger picture (with scantier clothing preferably) ?

 

[Spring Onion]

haha you don't want to know what an 'indian enough' look is do you.

Its the Indian crowd that was confused about her looks which they think were NOT Indian enough. See i did not say anything.

Though this is silly to assume she must look like a typical native Indian when she has a foreigner mother

 

[JanjaWeed]

We are listening this voice quite often now. I hope India would do something to soften this bad impression.

nice one!! you can take that tongue off your cheek now!!