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The Real Lesson Behind Miss America Is That We Have No Idea Where Any Countries Are On The Map

Canadian-Indian hip-hop artist and comic Lilly Singh breaks.it.down in this piece on the public’s reaction to Nina Davuluri winning the Miss America crown. While some people were taking to Twitter about how the terrorists had won (sigh), there were some of us who were celebrating this as a victory for our community.

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