Miss America 2015 winner is a daughter of Russian immigrants

[SuperMillionaire]

http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/how-kir...-miss-america/

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1939672

Miss America 2015 winner, Kira Kazantsev, is a daughter of Russian immigrants, and represented the state of New York, making it the third time in a row that New York has won the crown, following Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, and Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013. Interestingly, having the first Miss America of Indian descent is followed up with having the first Miss America of Russian descent. She is fluent in Russian, and Spanish, too.

For her talent, she sang "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, while playing percussion with a red plastic cup, in the style of Anna Kendrick's character in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect.

[Jinx]

I'm confused. 2015?

[Freya]

Maybe it's like new cars? Like the 2015 model comes out in 2014?

[Jinx]

Maybe it's like new cars? Like the 2015 model comes out in 2014?

Okay, I totally get what you're saying. But that first sentence got a good chuckle from me. xD

[Agent Proto]

I don't know, but I think this started last year when they awarded Miss America 2014 three months early in Sept '13. I read about this, so I watched her talent video on Youtube. I wasn't impressed at all.

[Shauna]

I declare myself the Miss America winner of 2018!

[Colonel Angus]

I declare myself the Miss America winner of 2018!

That'll be easy once Scotland becomes the 51st state.

[Del Murder]

Maybe her term in office doesn't start until 2015. So we basically get a lame duck Miss America for three months.

[Aulayna]

I'm still not entirely sure what we're supposed to be discussing here.

Is it uncommon for Miss America winners to be of non-American descent?

[NeoCracker]

I'm still not entirely sure what we're supposed to be discussing here.

Is it uncommon for Miss America winners to be of non-American descent?

Unless a native American woman has ever won, I don't think anyone of American decent has won it.

[fire_of_avalon]

That cup thing was the most ridiculous thing I've seen ever.

[Iceglow]

Is this going to be like the presidential elections, are people going to question if she was born in America? If not what's the news story here other than a pretty girl got awarded for being pretty and exhibiting some intelligence? Wait, isn't that misogynistic of us as a species...

[NorthernChaosGod]

Why is her being Russian an issue?

[noxious.sunshine]

Who cares that she's Russian? The bigger issue is that she's under scrutiny for being involved in sorority hazing while holding position as New Member Educator and was ousted from the chapter/organization because she didn't show up to the hearing they had set up to investigate.

She denies the claims, and said it was a joke that had been misconstrued, but things like that are taken extremely seriously in sororities and she should have known better.

As far as her talent... Well. It sucked. Her cup drumming was off beat .

[Shlup]

She's cute, but I find her cup skills unimpressive.