The three companies that I have chosen to review that are on the "50 Best Companies for Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics" lists from Fortune 2000 magazine are Advantica, Fannie Mae, and PEPSICO. ... Advantica's Denny Chain now requires all employees to complete an extensive diversity training and 35 of Denny's franchises are minority owned (America's 50 Best Companies For Minorities, p 10). ... Fifty percent of Advantica's 45,000 employees are minorities; 11 percent are African-Americans and 31 percent are Hispanic-American. ... In charitable giving Advantica was #1 with 99 ...

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During World War II, African Americans were welcomed to serve as soldiers but segregation was apparent. ... When the war ended and African American, Native American, and Hispanic soldiers came back to a home that did not grant them full rights, the Civil Rights Movement was born. ... Asian Americans were also heavily discriminated against in the aftermath of World War II. ... Japanese Americans were immediately viewed as enemies of the State. ... Women, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and others decided to fight the social norms of the time. ...

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"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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The Asian community is composed of several groups based on 7 main languages further divided into numerous dialects. ... The Asians" detached attitude towards the host community insulates them to some extent. ... It introduced the notion of indirect discrimination, based on the American model of affirmative action and outlawed racial discrimination in employment and education and in the provision of goods and services. ... Weekly newspapers include the Caribbean Times, Asian Times and Amar Deep Hindi. ... They are about 650 ethnic minority councillors in England and Wales (3.1% of the 21.498 lo...

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In the past thirty years, immigration has brought in foreigners who are mostly Asian, black, and especially Hispanic or Latino. ... This use of affirmative action not only hurts the general American public, but also the American-born minorities it was originally intended for. ... The ratio of Asian to Asian American United States science doctorates granted in 1993 was ten to one. That is, for every one Asian American with a Ph.D. in science there were ten non-citizen Asians in the United States also with the degree. ... State of Texas, four students claimed that they were denied admittance t...

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In the past thirty years, immigration has brought in foreigners who are mostly Asian, black, and especially Hispanic or Latino. ... This use of affirmative action not only hurts the general American public, but also the American-born minorities it was originally intended for. ... The ratio of Asian to Asian American United States science doctorates granted in 1993 was ten to one. That is, for every one Asian American with a Ph.D. in science there were ten non-citizen Asians in the United States also with the degree. ... State of Texas, four students claimed that they were denied admittance t...

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Affirmative action has been a major issue in America since its beginning. ... "Such programs are...intended to compensate for the persistence of past wrongs in the present by desegregating American institutions and altering the opportunity and outcome structures in American society," [Hud99]. ... These studies suggest that standardized test scores are unintentionally biased against Americans who suffer a lower position in the U.S. social structure, namely African-Americans and Hispanics. ... Most importantly, since 90% of Americans believe that a racially-diverse student body is i...

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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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Throughout the history of the United States of America the intense and controversial view of "equality" has been a hot topic. ... As a human being and especially as a citizen of the United States of America, I believe that civil rights are a very intricate part of our existence. ... And since, the affirmative action programs focused on minority groups that were determined by the federal government such as: Asian or Pacific Islander-Persons having origins in any of the original people of the far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. ... Black (not of Hispanic Or...

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For example let us say Cornell takes a student based solely on his merit, not taking into consideration his color, creed, race, or gender, and that it turns out this student is African American and felt no need to check off the box on his application concerning color. ... At Berkeley Asians and Whites must have had at least a 3.7 gpa throughout high school to be considered for acceptance, while minority students with such a record were automatically accepted. Berkeley lowered its standards for acceptance of minorities, knowing that sixty six percent of Asians and Whites graduated, when only t...

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For example, in California when an affirmative action policy was dropped at a law school, admission of African Americans to the law school plummeted (Konrad, 443). ... At Brown University, for example, "administration took action to ensure that the percentage of qualified Asian American applicants would not fall below the percentage of qualified non-Asian applicants admitted" (Feagin, 450). ... However, the majority of the support deals with African Americans. ... It has been estimated that the number of African American students admitted to law schools would be cut in half if affirmative ...

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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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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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The fact that it revolves around whether you are Black, Hispanic, White, or Asian, clearly exemplifies its racial intent. ... The beginning of affirmative action had good intentions, it was meant to create opportunities for many of the underrepresented people in America, but it is proving to be less beneficial in our society. ...

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There has been prejudice towards those who are not whites males in America since its founding in 1776. ... Immediately, that rationale can be problematic because most Hispanics and Asian Americans can't ordinarily claim their ancestors were victims of oppression. ... Supporters who look for compensation emphasis the history of slavery and segregation suffered by blacks in this country and sometimes the devastation of American Indians. ...

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As the Supreme Court begins to deliberate on the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy, the fight for and against such programs continues to be strongly debated throughout American politics. ... Without affirmative action, it is likely that the premier colleges and universities would be made up of predominantly white men and Asian-Americans. ...

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For instance, if your company does business in Asia, having Asian Australians on your negotiating team will greatly improve your chances of success. ... A typical example of an American company "Allied Signal" discovered the importance of diversity 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. ... In fact, with as much as 25 percent of US sales originating overseas, few companies can afford not to take advantage of America's diversity in creating workforces filled with cultures ...

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These organizations were mildly successful in bringing about African American rights. ... The imposition of segregation, or Jim Crow laws, stripped African Americans of many of the rights they had gained during the 19th century. ... Originally conceived as the cure for discrimination, affirmative action now had no place in the lives of many Americans. ... When elected President, Bill Clinton gave the American people what they wanted, a white house staff that "looked like America." ... "Only six-tenths of one percent of senior management positions are held by African Americans, four-tenths of a...

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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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"I am all for diversity, but when a school says, 'You're white so you can't come; you're African-American so you can,' that's illegal discrimination and it's wrong," said Steven Levine, the lawyer-father challenging the Arlington policy. ... His said it was "wrong to allow minority students with lower IQ scores than whites and Asians to be admitted into gifted programs because of their race. ...

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All other racial types other than white (African-American, Asian-American, Arab-American, etc ) will be categorized as minorities. ... This edict initiated the freedom that African-Americans deserved. ... Throughout the fight for individual liberties, women would receive their fundamental rights at about the same time African-Americans did. ... While at the same time, women were treated almost as poorly as African-Americans. ... The court also found that since African-Americans constituted the majority of the population in that area, " the diploma requirement had a disparate impact on...

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