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Anu maheshwari
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Affirmative action
September 1, 2007 - 02:17 PM
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Do you support it or is it no longer required ?
Check this article ...
Race (Still) Matters
by Scott Jaschik
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Patricia Sudi
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Re: Affirmative action
September 2, 2007 - 06:35 AM
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It depends with the status of your country in relation to women,the disabled and the marginalised group in the community! In my country,we still need the affirmative bill to ensure equtable represenation of women in areas of governance,to protect disabled and minority rights and to improve the social view of these groups in the community.
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Zeslene Mao
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Re: Affirmative action
September 2, 2007 - 12:02 PM
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I would say affirmative action is a good thing. But there needs to be a limit youknow. People can't always be dependent. Its meant to be empowerment.
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Anu maheshwari
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Re: Affirmative action
September 3, 2007 - 12:18 AM
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Hmmm should affirmative action be conditional ..i.e only for those with a weak financial background ?
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should it be granted irrespective of economic condition?
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Luke Lieberman
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Re: Affirmative action
September 4, 2007 - 02:56 PM
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I have a few thoughts on this -
I remember in high school you take the PSAT (before the SAT) and top scores get a scholarship to college.
a kid in my grade got the scholarship and I didn't - even though he scored 80 points lower than I did, because he was hispanic.
this would be fine with me except his family was totally loaded, they had more money then mine - he was basically the richest kid in school.
so really I think it should be based on need and not color - poor is poor. African Americans for instance might be in poverty at a hgiher rate - but if the assistance is need based then they will also receive the largest proportion of assistance.
My other problem with affirmative action is that we should be trying to break down racial divisions -
when the government starts catagorizing people by their race - this is, in a sense, injecting racism into the governments policies - it reinforces ethnic divisions instead of erasing them.
so I think the system should be reformed so that it is more based on need then Color - Oprah's kids really don't need the help - know what I mean.
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