The Miss India beauty pageant has been criticised for lack of contestant diversity. Photo / Twitter
The Miss India beauty pageant has been criticised for lack of contestant diversity. Photo / Twitter
A beauty pageant has come under fire for lacking diversity.
The Times of India released headshots of the 30 finalists for the Miss India beauty pageant — exposing the fact the women look very alike.
The contestant who wins Miss India will compete on June 15 for the spot torepresent their country at the Miss World pageant in Thailand in December.
However, critics have slammed the organisation on social media for having similar finalists and pointed out that they all have a fairer skin colour which lacked true representation of the country's women.
"They all have the same hair, and the SAME SKIN COLOUR, and I'm going to hazard a guess that their heights and vital stats will also be similar. So much for India being a 'diverse' country," one woman said on Twitter.
Another agreed, asking why couldn't a "Miss India be a dusky or dark brown or darker chocolate brown?"
One person described the group of women as an "assembly line production".
Miss India contestants. They all have the same hair, and the SAME SKIN COLOUR, and I'm going to hazard a guess that their heights and vital stats will also be similar. So much for India being a 'diverse' country. pic.twitter.com/L4yXG0WvRu
Beauty pageants have been taken very seriously in India since the mid-1990s, with many contestants including Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra going on to have lucrative Bollywood careers.
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