Minority essays
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Anti-discrimination law is a highly debated topic in today’s society. With non-governmental organizations lobbying for equality and the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by most nations, there has been a concerted effort to eliminate all forms of discrimination. However, this eradication of discrimination does not come without a cost. In recent years, the polarising concept of ‘affirmative action’ has garnered much attention. This essay will analyze a common argument made against affirmative action – that affirmative action...
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Society is defined as people who interact in a defined geographic territory and share elements of a common culture (Macionis and Gerber, 2014). There are numerous components to society: class, gender, family, and much more. However, ethnicity has become of greater influence in academia over the last 50 years (Adlparvar and Tadros, 2016). Ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage. People identify or are defined as members of an ethnic group based on commonalities like language, religion, beliefs, practices, and ancestry....
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Introduction As much as a campus is built with the brick and mortar of physical structures and buildings, it is also built through the composition of its student body. Admission decisions have a critical and distinctive role in establishing diversity and inclusion on college campuses (Winkle-Wagner & Locks, 2014). For this reason, it is imperative that the University establish use of affirmative action policies within the configuration of admissions decisions. This is not to suggest that qualified applicants be rejected...
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Affirmative Action has various positive impacts on an individual basis. For instance, Evan Apfelbaum of MIT and other professionals in the field would state there is a direct link between an employee’s representation of their minority group in the workplace. They say groups that are characterized more in a workplace or school environment tend to have fewer concerns about their personal reflection on their group (Apfelbaum, Reagans, & Stephens, 2016). This relationship shows that an employee's individual performance can be...
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Should a person who never had a head start in life be afforded the same opportunities as someone who has? Should everyone be on an even playing field when it comes to hiring, education and diversity? Yes everyone should be afforded the same opportunities on the same playing field so we can all essentially have the same starting point. Nobody should not be afforded an opportunity off the strength of something they cannot control. Due to many individuals careers being...
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