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First, many individuals tune in each year to watch the Miss America and Miss Teen USA pageants wondering which beautiful women will be crowned. Beauty pageants cause people to feel better about themselves, and some women to say, “I want to be like her. ... Pageants have helped me so much since an early age just communicating in my life (“American Beauties” 1D, 11D). Pageants can be thought of as a practice for learning to be social and interact with people. ... For example, young girls probably love watching beauty pageants in admiration, whereas women most likely watch them out of jealousy/envy. David Bass said, “Pageants are most popular and accepted here because ladies in the South are still more traditional as a whole. They also tend to have respect for the beauty, grace, great clothes and great makeup of pageants (“American Beauties” 1D, 11D). ... Beauty pageants, however, can encourage Americans to become physically fit. Pageants across the nation are becoming more focused on physical fitness. Miss America, which started out in 1921 as a “bathing beauty contest,” changed the name of its swimsuit competition to Lifestyle and Fitness.
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