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The Beauty Pageant

caption: Contestants wait to hear results of the Miss Hoa Khoi Lien Truong 2015 contest.
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Contestants wait to hear results of the Miss Hoa Khoi Lien Truong 2015 contest.
COURTESY OF HOA KHOI LIEN TRUONG (VSAUW.COM)

What makes the “ideal” Vietnamese-American woman? In the latest episode of our new podcast Second Wave, Thanh Tan finds herself confronting that question after she is invited to judge a local Vietnamese beauty pageant.


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