Allan Bakke was clearly discriminated against because he did not fall under the races that the university had a predetermined number of admissions for. When the University of California did not admit Bakke, twice, they subjected him to reverse discrimination. An individual’s race should be an additional attribute but not the sole deciding factor for admission. To this day affirmative action programs, as well as the topic of reverse discrimination, are contentious subjects (Shay, 2012). As the Court was almost split on the decision, so are many
The terms IQ, general mental ability or simply intelligence are often used interchangeably to refer to common characteristics shared by cognitive tests. However, none of these terms take into consideration environmental factors. Therefore, the argument that some races are intellectually superior to others cannot be supported in light of the Flynn effect (Haney, 1999). In the early 20th century the citizens of Paris objected to spending tax money on educating mentally retarded children. Psychologist Alfred Binet was hired to develop a test to identify mentally retarded children so that they could be removed from standard classrooms.
Loring Brace from the University of Michigan states that racial categories for human kind are, “arbitrary and meaningless,” because she strongly feels that in our society, race is defined merely based on our perceptions. She uses examples of how a long time ago people thought the earth was flat because that was the commonly shared “perception,” when it was later in fact found that the world is round. Though her arguments are compelling Gill maintains that his perceptions of race are not purely defined by political correctness. In fact he makes a strong argument that classifying people based on their geographic region is less confusing that using words such as Negroid, Caucasoid,
The race group is not determined in the ethnic group due to the fact that it includes Irish Americans, Polish American and Norwegians Americans (n.a., 2012). Religion distinguishes groups based on groups of individuals that worship faiths other than the more dominant faith of Christianity. Most people of the more dominate group such as the Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Amish, Muslims and Buddhists often misunderstand and stigmatize other religions. Also, cults, demon worship or practice with animal sacrifices are also included (n.a., 2012). Gender distinguishes groups of individuals based on males and females.
1/27/12 Ethics 200-01 Dr. Maxwell Reflection Paper I would have to say I am not against white only scholarships but I am for it not for it either I am in the middle. I feel everyone should have the same opportunity to earn any scholarship. That’s including Blacks only scholarships and Hispanic only scholarships. The author states that the republicans are only doing this because they are against race-based scholarships and affirmative action. Giving out scholarships to someone because the color of their skin is keeping racism around, because it’s not fair that a person gets $2000 more dollars then another person because the color of your skin.
The discussion of race must involve the discussion of stereotyping in general. Race is a form of stereotyping that we as humans do to divide ourselves into groups; these groups such as race are the building blocks of our societal order. If a society is constructed in such a way, it benefits some, who are born with inherent seemingly natural advantages, while undermining other groups. People of lighter skin have advantages that they did not have to earn but have simply because they were born into a family with a lighter shade of skin. It has been scientifically proven that race has nothing to do with biology, and on the surface it appears to only be a physical factor, however there are much more far-reaching implications.
Racial Groups Kyle Masur SSC101 Assignment Module Race is a term that is used to identify a group of people as genetically different from another. There has been little change of the way race has been looked at by the scientific community until recently. Scientists are starting to move a way from the term race, because humans are very much similar in there genetics. Race has been determined to be socially constructed. The evidence of this is that all people are genetically similar, most genetic different are the same in two people from the same local group as people from different countries, and race is used to justify social injustices committed by people.
A Hardened America: The Relationship between Ethnicity and Strength of Partisanship INTRODUCTION Although there has been a great deal of research on the correlations between ethnicity and partisanship, there hasn’t been much research on the intensity of partisanship across different ethnicities. For example, we have long known that Latinos, as a whole, are more likely to vote Democrat (Cain, Kiewiet, and Uhlaner, 1991), but how strongly are they tied to the Democratic Party? My research attempts to address the relationship between voters’ ethnicities and their partisanship intensity. Although I’m focusing my research on ethnic groups (Asian, Black, Latino, Caucasian, Mixed, and Other) living in San Diego, it is important to note a resurgence
The people during the time of the time of Bible was made knew of any other race of there on. In the Bible it specifically states there is only one race, the human race. In the Bible, race is not use as a category, but as time went on it was put in a biological category. The bible is not really aware of how controversial one race is to another. With know in society races are competing
The one culture they were learning about was the white culture. Ehrenreich states, “If there had been high technology in ancient China, kingdoms in black Africa or women anywhere, at any time, doing anything worth noticing, we did not know it, nor did anyone tell us.” (pg 135) This sentence is evidence that students back then were not learning about other cultures or things going on around the world. The problems that were happening back then could have been prevented if America would have accepted every race. Since “colored” people were not being treated the same they had to fight for their rights. When America did finally acknowledge the different ethnicities, it took a while for people to actually accept it.