“There have been racial barriers, and it has been challenging to be accepted as Japanese.”
That’s what a tearful Carolina Shiino said in impeccable Japanese after she was crowned Miss Japan on Monday.
The 26-year-old model, who was born in Ukraine, moved to Japan at the age of five and was raised in Nagoya.
She is the first naturalised Japanese citizen to win the pageant, but her victory has re-ignited a debate on what it means to be Japanese.
While some recognised her victory as a “sign of the times”, others have said she does not look like what a “Miss Japan” should.
I didn’t bring ethic cleansing Into the conversation…… that was their stretch and half from me talking about Native American pageants having to be presented that way.
Since American pageants are about non-native Americans now.
How you came to ethnic cleansing from that… fuck if I know, but it’s fallacious at best.