Pageant Questions: Reporters, The Media

Pageant Sample Questions: Your Views the Media, the Press, Reporters

• What is “affirmative action”? (Tip: One uninformed contestant answered, “I try to make all my actions affirmative.” Make sure you know what “Affirmative Action” is.)


• What are your views on affirmative action?


• You are the first woman of your ethnicity to compete in this pageant. Do you feel that is an advantage or disadvantage?


• Do you think America is a racist country? What would you do to change/improve that?


• What do you think about so-called “reverse discrimination” against white males in jobs?


• Do you think that women and minorities are given an advantage, not just equality?


• Your ancestry is interesting. Please tell us about it.


• Critics claim that when colleges use racial preferences in admissions, it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Civil Rights Act. Should colleges be allowed to consider race in any way when selecting students for admission?


• Have you ever experienced some type of discrimination? If you have, how did you deal with it? If you haven't, how would you handle it?


• What do you think about so-called "reverse discrimination" against white males in jobs?


• Who is Sonia Sotomayor? (First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice and the third woman to serve on the high court.)


• What is your opinion of Sonia Sotomayor?


• Would you ever demonstrate for civil rights or women’s rights? Why or why not?


• How can you as Miss _____________ affect race relations in this state/country?


• Would you ever be a civil rights activist?


• On the issue of race, should persons of one color be allowed to adopt children of a different color or culture?


• Do you think that Asian women have been stereotyped in the media? Why?

You are of Asian descent; Do you think that Asian children are more  pressured to achieve
that children in other cultures?
• Do you think Condoleezza Rice, who served as US Secretary of State under President Bush II in a conservative administration, is a positive role model for African-Americans?


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