External Analysis Target market Abercrombie and Fitch is one of today's most popular clothing companies that cater to American's youth culture. ... Today, A&F stores can be found in malls across America and the A&F logo is easily seen on any high school or college campuses. ... Many retailers, including Gap competitors Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle have also experienced ugly first-half results, especially in the same-store sales category. Social, legal, and regulatory issues The Asian Pacific American Resistance & Empowerment Network (APAREN), a national collective o...

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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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There are many immigrants that are not even American citizens taking full advantage of the plan to get jobs over American citizens. ... There were 10 science Ph.D.s awarded to non-citizen Asians to every one awarded a U.S. Asian." ... Only citizens of the United States of America shall benefit from the laws of affirmative action. ... With cooperation and negotiation, together we can fix this problem that has persisted in America for so long....

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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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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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Although the business case for diversity varies from organization to organization, the concept must be understood and a made priority if America's companies are to succeed. ... 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. ... In fact, with as much as 25 percent of US sales originating overse...

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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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He was also once in love with a Japanese-American woman who later left him for a Japanese man. ... Everything in the community costs more to obtain for the Japanese such as the real estate, in order to keep there culture subordinate to the Americans. ... Because she is of African-American descent she begins to lash out towards other races who may have the opportunity to have a different appearance than her. ... In an example used in class, a man who lost his job to an Asian man feels resentment towards the entire Asian world. In response to this, the man brutally murdered an Asian man j...

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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. ... Providing equal opportunity and access to minority students at major universities, especially in areas that demand a high level of skill, are a major component of the plan to equalize in America's labor field. ... African Americans have skills just like whites and the ability to further them to...

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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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Section A These are some of the national equal opportunity employment laws that impact JetBlue's hiring practices, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866. These laws help shape the decision making process at JetBlue and other major American corporations. ... This means that JetBlue can refuse to hire an Asian pilot if he does not have the necessary qualifications to be a pilot. ... If JetBlue had a standing policy of not hiring Asians at all,then that would be a Title VI...

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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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They also lower standards and expectations because when African Americans and Hispanics are held to a lower standard then others and this sends the wrong message to them, and it could easily even be considered racist to the minorities even though they are basically being given acceptance into colleges. And lastly racial quotas violate the principles of American citizenship, everyone should be able to unite as one nation, and come together, and with systems such as racial quotas it makes it much tougher and even gives people reason to not come together and not unite as a single one nation. .....

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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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"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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