"Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren't dark-skinned. ... Better yet, would Americans act differently? ... The answer is simple: Affirmative action isn't fair for all of America. ... Americans work very hard to get to where they are and reach their goals. ... Whites and Asians are being blocked out jobs and school that they highly qualified and deserving of, just to make space for minorities who have weaker resumes and qualifications, (Canady.) ...

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Supply-Side Affirmative Action The debate on the relevance of Affirmative Action is still a heated topic in mainstream America. The article "Supply-Side Affirmative Action" by Clarence Page highlights the reasons why Affirmative Action is crucial to the diversification of Corporate America. ... However, it is not mention that Asian Americans score higher than white males, but rarely receive the same benefits. ... I believe that Affirmative Action, is an absolute necessity because it insures qualified women, African-Americans, and other minorities the prospect of opportunities that may have ot...

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Race relations in America are very diverse, since America integrates people from all different cultures and ethnic backgrounds it is difficult to define certain aspects of the racial situations occurring in our society. Some Americans still treat, consider, and make decisions based upon peoples group, class and race. Although America has a high amount of immigrants from all over the world, racial discrimination typically affects the Latino and African American races the most. ... Another breakthrough America has overcome is segregation. ... Latinos, African Americans, Asians, Europeans etc al...

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When he shoots the African American hitchhiker, the young officer crashes everything that both he as an individual and the audience have believed in. ... However, the first encounter with the racial discrimination is when two African American characters walked out of a café. ... Another incident in the movie of racial discrimination is when an Asian woman gets into a car accident with a Latina cop. Right away the Asian women used racial comments saying that the accident was the Latin women's fault because "Mexicans cannot drive." However the Latina woman responded with r...

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The majority of the worlds people can be separated into four major "race" groups which include white, black, Asian and American Indian. ... The Asian ancestry is much larger than white, including individuals from Polynesia, Hawaii and Chinese descent. ... Medical examiners, attorneys, judges and law enforcement figures want to know if the skeleton found is of white, black or Asian ancestry. ... Complex cranial sutures are common amongst East Asians, American Indians and Polynesians, thereby ruling out this as the single point as a race identifier. ...

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This leaves African Americans in a perpetual state of disadvantage. ... 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 people had to endure in the past (Plous). ... The majority of Asian Americans and Jewish people were not forced to come to this country as slaves. ... The African American tester in each pair received no job re...

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Affirmative action originally began in the United States to remedy the past discrimination against minorities, particularly African-Americans. ... Eventually, these laws expanded to incorporate women and other ethnic minorities including American Indians and Hispanics. ... In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. ... Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or an SAT above 1,200 to have better than 90% chance of admiss...

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Is it a part of the America cultural inheritance? ... "Nigger and Nigga is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, at the same time, words that remind African Americans of tragic American experiences," said by Randall Kennedy in his book title, "nigger." ... The term Nigga derived from the word Nigger, which is commonly used in the African-American communities as a term of endearment. ... This is a blatant slap in the face for black America; ironically black America is to blame. ... No matter how you think of yourself, whether you are African-American, White, Hispan...

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Following this shocking statistic, recent findings of the Associated Press poll of racial attitudes in America concluded that 43% of blacks are anti-black (Ross). ... This hacked into the audience's pathos, as purchasers felt sheer animosity towards the African Americans, now that the whites could no longer conveniently use the blacks as slaves. ... Almost all races, especially Asians, and particularly South Koreans cosmetically alter their features for the western appeal. ... The early 1900s was a time in which advertisements and public mockeries of African Americans, such as Elliott...

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For example, extrinsic racists will argue that many African Americans are less intelligent from other groups of races because they are simply African Americans. ... For example, many white Americans believe that they are morally superior to other racial groups because they are simply white. ... For example, if my father, who is Korean-American, ran for president against Obama, I would be in favor of my father because he is simply my father. This would be the same as if the Koreans in the Asian community was in favor of picking my father over Obama simply because my father is Asian. ... For exa...

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One idea behind affirmative action is that it compensates for the huge disadvantage African American people have in America, which is that their entire culture is rooted in slavery and for most of their history here, they did not have basic rights. ... Racial discrimination was wrong in America's brutal history of slavery, just as it is wrong today. ... 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 this situation, it seems that the upside" of being African American appeared to out...

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Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... African, Asian, Arabic, Islamic and European, yet separate facilities existed for each community. ...

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And that's why I have chosen this topic of diversity, because it is one that still continues to be a sore spot in America. ... An increasingly assertive opposition movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won and that favoring members of one group over another simply goes against the American grain. ... Whatever the merits of affirmative action for black Americans, it makes little sense to extend its benefits to those whose claims on the nation's conscience are far less cogent -- and who come here expecting no special help. Ne...

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Introduction Despite the erroneous origins of the term race and its modern usurpation by advanced studies in biological anthropology, American society at large (and elsewhere) and mental health professionals continue to place great cultural and psychological value on the term. ... Homo sapiens americanus, for example, were a group from America "given the color red, the humor choleric, and the posture upright ", while the group from Europe, Homo sapiens europaeus, are described as "white, optimistic, and muscular, gentle, active, very smart, inventive, and covered with close vestments " (Camero...

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Du Bois says that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in American and the islands of the sea,"" (Du Bois 45) . ... This uncertainty that Du Bois describes existed because black Americans identified themselves through the judgment of white Americans. ... But through this uncertainty, black Americans could see what was being denied from them, and through this they can identify the truths of U.S society that white Americans are unable to identify. ... Black Americans possess the grea...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... African-American women took up leadership roles, as previously demonstrated by Baker and Robinson, while white college-aged women started getting involved with the SNCC, especially after Freedom Summer in 1964. ... Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outli...

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Appearance has held such precedence for Americans. ... In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. ... By casting a negative light towards Arabs, Africans, Mexicans, Asians or any other races, the justice system clearly demonstrates a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean that he or she represents the negative insinuations associated with that race. ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% m...

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In the twentieth century the Church came under fire because of its controversial ideas considering African Americans. ... A large portion of the Book of Mormon describes the history of several pre-Christian civilizations that existed throughout America. ... A major fact that argues against the Missouri thesis was the record of the first African American priest; Elijah Abel was ordained an elder in the Melchizedek priesthood on March 3, 18366. ... Any marriage that occurred by African American members of the Church could not take place at a Mormon temple. ... At that time in history the ...

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Hispanic or Latino may be used interchangeably with each other, as may Black or African American be used interchangeably. ... Unfortunately, many of these students will not reach that goal, especially if they are Hispanic or African American. This is simply reflecting statistics that even though more minorities are enrolling in college, the rates of success for these students are still shockingly lower than those of their Asian or white counterparts. ... He quotes the Education Trust president Kati Haycock; "Many educators believe that poor kids and Latino kids and African American kids j...

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