Pageants are best known for the beauty section of them. There was a show once called 'Toddlers and Tiaras' that was about small children in beauty pageants. This pageant is not your average one though. Meet Miyamoto 'Ariana' Nagasaki, the first biracial beauty queen in history. Biracial means that a person is born with two different raced parents. Miyamoto is Japanese and African American. She is Japan's first biracial Miss Universe. Many of the citizens in Japan are outraged and say that she does not represent Japan's demographic.
Beauty in Japan is to have pale or 'white' skin. Japan had accepted many mixed race entertainers and athletes but not this. The people of Miyamoto's hometown, Nagasaki, do not want her to represent the town. The middle aged and young citizens agreed that Miss Japan (Universe) has to be 100 percent Japanese to represent Japan. Miyamoto may get looks and stares from many but she is determined to do her best whether Japan likes it or not.
- Ebony McPherson
Beauty in Japan is to have pale or 'white' skin. Japan had accepted many mixed race entertainers and athletes but not this. The people of Miyamoto's hometown, Nagasaki, do not want her to represent the town. The middle aged and young citizens agreed that Miss Japan (Universe) has to be 100 percent Japanese to represent Japan. Miyamoto may get looks and stares from many but she is determined to do her best whether Japan likes it or not.
- Ebony McPherson