... characteristics that distinguish one individual or group from another. Anthropological arbitrary definition of race recognizes three major racial divisions among human beings: Caucasian (basically all whites); Mongolian (basically all Asian or yellow skinned people); and Negroid (those with dark skin, but from Africa). Racism still persists in the U.S. despite a civil rights movement of more than 50 years ... III. Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States Today The United States has divided its population into five racial/ethnic groups, namely: European-Americans or Caucasian (74%); ...

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... for past and continuing discrimination against historically marginalized and disenfranchised groups in American society," (Hacker 85). A common complaint surrounding affirmative action policies aimed at serving minorities, specifically African Americans, is that they violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution by depriving white males of equal protection under the law (Greenberg 100). Many of those against affirmative action policies claim ... minority groups, regardless of whether they were born in the United States or are even citizens. In the past thirty years, immigration h...

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... for past and continuing discrimination against historically marginalized and disenfranchised groups in American society," (Hacker 85). A common complaint surrounding affirmative action policies aimed at serving minorities, specifically African Americans, is that they violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution by depriving white males of equal protection under the law (Greenberg 100). Many of those against affirmative action policies claim ... minority groups, regardless of whether they were born in the United States or are even citizens. In the past thirty years, immigration h...

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... for past and continuing discrimination against historically marginalized and disenfranchised groups in American society," (Hacker 85). A common complaint surrounding affirmative action policies aimed at serving minorities, specifically African Americans, is that they violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution by depriving white males of equal protection under the law (Greenberg 100). Many of those against affirmative action policies claim ... minority groups, regardless of whether they were born in the United States or are even citizens. In the past thirty years, immigration h...

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... analyses. Classroom encounters of these kinds did not occur at "quality" educational institutions when I was a student of social science. Even when occasional non-European-Americans were in my classes, they were there to learn Western models and methods, not to teach and collaborate. What a lost opportunity for everyone -- students, ... by bringing in money, and many other things. If the university chose an athlete over me, I would not even question their move. An Asian-American high school student Amy S. Cheung describes the paradox that schools face with enrollment. "Looking at them a...

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... of that, a woman's salary is only 70% of a male's salary (Affirmative). Another major argument against affirmative action is that if Indian people, Asian Americans, and other ethnic groups could rapidly advance economically, African Americans should be able to do the same. This is not an effective argument because Asians and Indian people did not have to endure what African American ... University said that "racial stigmatization plays a more important role than direct discrimination in producing racial inequality, by depriving blacks of opportunities for development" (Anderson). The maj...

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... In present times, some places still use this system, but this is unconstitutional because it makes people discriminated on the basis of race. Affirmative action, an injustice to hard working Americans, gives opportunities to minorities over whites; this is unconstitutional and a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution which provides for equal protection under the law. The main purpose of ... , Sub-continental-Asian) are to be considered socially and economically disadvantaged." (Chavez CEO) This is a broad generalization that does not pertain to all minorities. There ar...

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... standards, opponents of affirmative action view the information about the middle class in a different manner. Opponents believe that "racial discrimination has mostly been eradicated for middle-class black Americans, thus lessening the need for affirmative action programs, which primarily benefit the middle class (Feagin, 261). This is one of many reasons that some people argue that affirmative ... of standards occurs in vast numbers in educational institutions. At Brown University, for example, "administration took action to ensure that the percentage of qualified Asian American applic...

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... surveys to hand out. I surveyed thirteen males and seven females all-varying in race. I surveyed five different races: African American, Latino, Caucasian, Asian American, Middle Eastern, and Indian. I surveyed twenty five percent African Americans, twenty five percent Caucasians, fifteen percent Asian Americans, twenty percent Latinos and fifteen percent were of other races. None of the people I asked refused to take the survey. The majority ... earnings similarity with college-educated white women, college- educated black men earn 76% of the earnings of their white male counterparts (...

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... an ethical standpoint. But it is also great for business. Why, you ask? Companies can benefit from a multicultural workforce's expertise. For instance, if your company does business in Asia, having Asian-Americans on your negotiating team will greatly improve your chances of success. 1Allied Signal discovered this when it successfully negotiated to sell wheels to China Eastern Airlines. Much of its success ... was due to the presence of Chinese-Americans on the sales team. Allied Signal and dozens of organizations like it have learned that diversity is a wonderful asset when competing i...

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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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... violates The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Intended to promote a diverse student body, Davis had sixteen out of their one-hundred seats reserved for those of Negro, Asian, or Chicano descent. In other words, if the remaining eighty-four spots were already filled up, an applicant lacking these specific options of ethnic background would not get in, regardless ... accept certain students over others based on their appearance. Another argument supporters of affirmative action will often give is that affirmative action compensates for the past discrimination and injus...

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... : 2) developmental and skill enhancing activities: and 3) compensation and reward systems. The study identified the differences and similarities in barriers confronting men and women of historically under-represented groups--African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Native Americans, Individuals with disabilities, White women, and women in low-paying occupations. The Commission's findings and recommendations were submitted in two reports. The research findings of the Glass Ceiling ... ...

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... . SAT scores, grades, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data and class rank scream the existence of racial lines in our schools as Whites out perform African Americans, Latinos and other minorities by huge differences. Academic performance between races has becomes more divided recently despite the corrective attempts of affirmative action and many other programs designed to ... many well-respected scholars, university heads, businessmen and researchers tried tackling this question of minority displacement. The Task Force examined the lacking number of minorities, specifi...

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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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... 30 years is the idea of affirmative action, where a race or a particular group of people receive preferential treatment over others. Many ethnic minorities, such as blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, wouldn't have been in college if it hadn't been for the affirmative action plan.. Scholarships which were geared specifically toward minorities or women have often been the difference between a college ... of the most foul injustices currently allowed to occur in this country today. Affirmative action originally began in the United States to remedy the past discrimination against minor...

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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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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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... with moral concerns question whether affirmative action can be asserted as a right to compensation for the injuries from past discrimination. Immediately, that rationale can be problematic because most Hispanics and Asian Americans can't ordinarily claim their ancestors were victims of oppression. Their own voluntary arrival coincided with an era of discrimination. Supporters who look for compensation emphasis the history of slavery and ... ...

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... and the fastest growing type of business which happens to be technology, management here is represented less than in any other type of business. All women and most minorities excluding Asian Americans hold few to no jobs in this field that includes the manufacturing of computers, communication devices, and other kinds of electronic equipment. Along with technology, the stock brokerage field and ... ...

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... that scored an average of twelve hundred and thirty-two and Asians with an average score of twelve hundred and fifty-four. As a result of this, two thousand white and Asian straight A students were turned away from the college to provide room for blacks and Hispanics (Williams, 1997, 171). In order to meet with the affirmative action guidelines, some universities will ... 's skin is, the harder of time they have in getting a job (Wage Gap: Myths and Facts, 1993, 6). In a study done in Los Angeles, it was found that darker-skinned African Americans have a fifty two percent less chance of ...

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... contract. The track record speaks for its self. Women and blacks were continually discriminated against at all levels. Now Article VII of the Civil Rights Act encompasses all new immigrants, Asian Americans, and Hispanics. These aforementioned groups, which have no significant history of being discriminated against here, in the United States, are entitled to these privileges. Now just to so call level ... ...

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... of students. Examples of these are: At the University of California at Berkeley, black and Hispanic students are up to twenty times more likely to be accepted for admission than Asian American applicants who have the same academic qualifications. At Ivy League colleges, incoming freshmen have average grade scores close to 4.0 and average SATs of 1,250 to 1,300. According to admissions ... for the individual favoring minority groups." (Davidio, A60) In situations where there are personal consequences, discrimination is still more likely to occur. In the last thirty years, surveys indicat...

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