Will the crowning of the new Miss USA Rima Fakih help bring about greater diversity and acceptance of Muslim Americans?

She doesn't really seem to be a Muslim American, so it probably won't promote acceptance of Muslim Americans. It might remind people that immigration and aculturalization does usually work. Her family seems to be an unusually broadminded Muslim-Christian mix, which is plausible for people from Lebanon.

She went to Catholic school as a kid. And it seems they represent the American mainstream tradition of being generically religious without worrying too much about the details.

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