... and Latino poor health. Another factor to the stress from the environment on their ethnic groups is their constant comparison with the "model minority". Asian Americans are looked upon to be a model minority because of their low key existence, and their capability to be successful both in the business world and ... This although appearing to be a positive stereotype, is much more drastically a negative one. The idea of "model minority" holds Asian Americans up to a higher level, and makes people have presumption that they will succeed and do well. This puts more stress on the ... Asian...

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... think it is fair to integrate our work forces at someone else's expense. One specific group of people that do not support the policy is, surprising to most, the Asian-American society. Many Asian Americans, specifically Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese, argue that affirmative action policies ultimately harm them. While these policies exist to help the similar to that of the white majority. They ... achievement and integration into American society is a proof that affirmative action programs are no longer needed and they hinder opportunities for "qualified" Asian Americans. On the other ha...

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... on Education. The Study which analyzed statistics from the U.S Department of Education, found that despite the greater numbers of minority students in college, blacks and Hispanics were behind whites and Asian Americans in graduation rates. It also found a gap between genders among blacks. From 1999 to 2000, college attendance among balck women under 25 increased 4%, to 43.9% but it declined for men ... a total minority enrollment in institutions of higher education had increased to 4 million in 1999 from 2.7 million in 1990, with gains of 68.3% among Hispanics, 31.6% among blacks and 5...

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... Asian. Under the affirmative action, they must employ someone who is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today. Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are back to color and race differences. We are all Americans ... not commit the wrongs that were committed a generation ago. We should not punish them, but rather treat everyone fairly. We should treat everyone as Americans. As Bakke quotes the Constitution, "...The guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment extend to all persons. It's langua...

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... Native American, and Hispanic soldiers came back to a home that did not grant them full rights, the Civil Rights Movement was born. African Americans became even more disappointed in the system when they were so discriminated against when it came to searching for equal opportunity when searching for jobs, ... to the states ready to participate in society. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) gained half a million members. African Americans wanted to end the tyranny of Jim Crow laws; they were separate and they most definitely were not equal. It was argued...

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... of alumni of many universities. Because affirmative action gives preferences to certain races, then there is nothing more to work hard for. People: White, Black, Asian, Spanish, and many other races, have all worked very hard to get to where they are. Just because one is male, or just because one is ... considered in the work place is that, according to the Washington Post, out of 1700 people surveyed randomly, 92% of women, and 84% of African Americans agreed that race and gender shouldn't be an issue when being hired for a job. People in general would rather earn their job than have it...

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... the federal government, were overturned and replaced with a system of legal segregation. The imposition of segregation, or Jim Crow laws, stripped African Americans of many of the rights they had gained during the 19th century. Affirmative Action would not be considered again until 70 years later. ... its policy toward affirmative action. Originally conceived as the cure for discrimination, affirmative action now had no place in the lives of many Americans. However, some civil rights groups had recovered from the famine they had been put through during the 80's. They rallied and regained...

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... , but below the mean scores of the students admitted to the nation's seven or so most selective schools, including Michigan. Minority applicants cannot be considered in competition with white and Asian applicants if they are to make up at least five to ten percent- the usual objective- of the entering class of selective colleges and universities. Therefore, at the University of ... Michigan Law School, for example, black students are basically admitted automatically even with scores lower than those with which white and Asian students are automatically rejected. If each applicant had an ...

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... , but below the mean scores of the students admitted to the nation's seven or so most selective schools, including Michigan. Minority applicants cannot be considered in competition with white and Asian applicants if they are to make up at least five to ten percent- the usual objective- of the entering class of selective colleges and universities. Therefore, at the University of ... Michigan Law School, for example, black students are basically admitted automatically even with scores lower than those with which white and Asian students are automatically rejected. If each applicant had an ...

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... injustice in the work place, but it is present in admissions to colleges and universities as well. However, it does not exclusively pertain to white males in this context, but Asian-Americans as well. Therefore, affirmative action is not even inclusive of all of the minorities, but rather a select few. Just as the white employee has to have higher credentials to receive ... a job, so do white and Asian-American college applicants. Colleges and universities often have quotas set by the government, as businesses do, that ensure that they have enough minorities in their incoming freshmen c...

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Martin Luther King once told Americans of his dream that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would sit down together at the table of ... . Affirmative Action was made up in order to make up for the discrimination against African Americans in earlier times. Back in those times it was necessary because African Americans were not equal at all. They had always had a lower education; therefore African Americans needed affirmative action to even receive an equal opportunity to get into college. Right now ... college campuses are six percent African Americans and wi...

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... to receive the educational attention that whites have been taking advantage of for years. However, it is also argued that Affirmative Action, a push to eliminate discrimination, ultimately discriminates itself. Euro-Americans are ultimately the victims of Affirmative Action when less qualified minorities are supposedly taking up space that the privileged white male should have with his perfect SAT and GPA scores ... minorities of our country deserve a push in education to help repair years and years of repression. Similarly, Affirmative Action will hopefully fix the future as it fixes th...

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... cannot be explained solely by arguments about the availability pool. An important fact to consider is that the proportion of African-Americans and Hispanics who hold faculty positions in predominantly white institutions has never come close to the percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics who hold terminal degrees, even in fields where the supply is relatively good. (Brown, 1988) In certain fields ... small part of the professorate. (Whites constituted 95 percent of all faculty members in 1972 and 83 percent in 1997.) Most of the growth in minority participation has been by Asian Am...

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... today. The United States" demographic makeup will differ too. An estimation that the Hispanic population will increase from nine percent to twenty-five percent, and Asian population will rise from three to eight percent. African Americans, the largest minority group now, is expected to increase its numbers by sixty-two percent over the next fifty years (McHugh 91). Some might think ... the form of unfavorable treatment can have negative workplace consequences. It can lead to lowering workers motivation and diminish job performance. The tragedy on September 11th 2001 will make diversifying...

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... purpose of giving us a fair distribution of goods and services. Everyone has to think that the outcome is fair. According to a New York Times pole only twenty-seven percent of Americans support current Affirmative Action policies. According to Rawls this makes Affirmative Action Policies wrong. We should bargain until we can find principals that everyone can agree on. In daily life ... admitted to the University of California-Berkeley in the fall of 1993 (Before affirmative action was eliminated): Mean Scores (on scale 400-1600) Asians 1293 Whites 1256 Hispanics 1032 African Americans 9...

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... benefits can also be suffered which can, in turn, have long term effects. At the University of Texas Law School a minority admissions program is set aside for blacks and Mexican-Americans. When a white applicant with a 3.8 college grade point average was refused admission, school officials openly stated that she probably would have been admitted had she been one of the recognized minorities ... in hi-tech fields. Of all U.S. science doctorates awarded in 1993, 46 percent went to foreigners. There were 10 science Ph.D.s awarded to non-citizen Asians to every one awarded a U.S. Asian." Th...

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... that promotions given to white males employees were based solely on merit and intelligence, reason being that white males score higher on standardized test. However, it is not mention that Asian Americans score higher than white males, but rarely receive the same benefits. It's an little known fact that white males receive some benefits from Affirmative Action; by expanding the criteria, individuals ... still needed in today's society because the injustice remains. Do we still need Affirmation Action? Yes. I believe that Affirmative Action, is an absolute necessity because it insures qu...

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IN 1996 Barbara Gutter, who is white, applied for admission to the University of Michigan's Law School. She was denied. After investigating she found out that African Americans and ethnic minorities who had lower overall admissions scores were admitted. The admissions procedure is based on a points system. The points system is an admissions criteria, which is based on ... student body in colleges and universities." Numerous people would also agree that the points system for admission is corely unconstitutional. The constitution was put in place to protect all people: Asian, Cocacion, Africa...

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... the actual merit behind the justification of such programs. Without affirmative action, it is likely that the premier colleges and universities would be made up of predominantly white men and Asian-Americans. Studies have shown that the supposedly objective standards for measuring student qualifications are not objective at all but rather favor the white suburban male who has been given the better ... ...

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