admit‚ second-tier schools‚ to keep up their minority numbers‚ also offer big racial preferences. The result is a cascade effect down the law school hierarchy‚ leaving 80 percent to 90 percent of black students at significantly more selective schools than they would get into strictly on their academic
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and this is based on the assumption that we live in a post-racial society‚ meaning racism is no longer an issue in the United States. If racism is no longer a problem‚ then why does the government need to pass a program that only benefits racial minority group and doesn’t exclude hard-working Americans from employment and educations? An issue on discussing about affirmative action is that racism is a problem in the past that as the nation progresses‚ the real effects of a racist system still have on
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center of the controversy. Ethical controversies are created when groups quarrel that certain topics are moral or immoral. In the Model of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective‚ an essay by George M. Fredrickson‚ he explains the changes on how distinctive cultural groups define themselves or the way they have been defined previous through another group by delivering the four basic conceptions of how ethnic or racial groups should express to each other‚ including Ethnic
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Is Affirmative Action A Necessity? Affirmative action is a plan designed to end discrimination by guaranteeing minorities will be hired or accepted into certain schools regardless of race or gender. In 1955‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment in the federal government because of race‚ color‚ or national origin (Affirmative Action). This policy‚ which started out as a phrase‚ was introduced in the
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till today‚ Caucasians have always been in control. Even though history has a huge role in that regarding everything that happened during slavery years‚ the conditions for ethnical minorities has not improved to the standards usually enjoyed by Caucasians. Paying close attention to some statistics regarding ethnic minorities‚ we see clearly that the conditions for them are much different than those of Caucasians. Comparing the unemployment‚ education and poverty rates between African Americans and Caucasians
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reading‚ writing and basic knowledge of mathematical problems are not equally achieved by all social groups. It is clear that education plays a major role in the future of an individual‚ yet there are achievement gaps between Black‚ White and Hispanic groups. Unfortunately‚ minority groups are not meeting the standard scoring according to statistics. White groups are exceeding Black and Hispanic groups in reading‚ writing‚ and mathematics. There are a vast number of reasons for these achievement gaps
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movie was Prejudice‚ Poverty and Determination. According to Schaefer prejudice can be defined as “ a negative attitude toward and entire category of people‚ often an ethnic or racial minority group”. (Schaefer‚ 2008‚ p. 237). Prejudice happens when people have a false pre-conception about an individual or a group. It is seen throughout this movie and even in the title of the movie Slumdog. Jamal comes from a one of the poorest areas in India Mumbai. He has no education‚ no family and no means
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success. Wal-Mart has been rewarded with many honors and awards including being named in the Top 30 Companies for Diversity by Black Enterprise magazine‚ ‘Top 10 Companies for Asian-Americans by Asian Enterprise magazine‚ and ‘Top 10 Companies for Minorities’’ by Hispanic Network magazine in 2006. Also in 2007 Wal-Mart was listed in the ‘Top 50 Companies’ by Diversity Inc.‚ ‘Top 35 Companies for Executive Woman’ by the National Association for Female Executives‚ ‘Top 10 Companies for Asian Americans’
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When many think of affirmative action‚ they think of replacing a member of the majority population with someone of the minority population. However‚ in actuality‚ programs that involve the firing of white workers or in some way “unduly trampled on the interests of white workers” are considered unlawful (“Affirmative Action‚” n.d.). The argument against quotas is another
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as interpenetration and fusion of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. In other cases‚ cultural assimilation perhaps that immigrants and members of ethnic group are expected to come to resemble the majority groups in terms of norms‚ values‚ and behaviors. Cultural assimilation is where majority group does not tolerated different ethnic or racial identities In general; cultural assimilation adopts the cultural norms and values of the dominant group such as learning the language of the most
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