My opinion is going to be biased because affirmative action does not help me. As a white American, I am going to have to work twice as hard as many of my ethnic friends in order to get into the colleges that are basically GIVING them admissions for what? We'll both be getting the same degree.
Not to mention that a lot of them are immigrants receiving many government benefits and immigrant-related scholarships, but I am less important because I am white? I forgot that white people can't be poor anymore.
I think it is crap and it degrades the education system. Students should be let in based upon their individual merits. Affirmative action isn't going to encourage minorities to reach for higher education - if they don't want to go to even free public school in the first place, how is opening the doors of a prestiguous college going to help the matter?
This only aids the "entitlement" issue. If you show people that they will get more benefits due to their race, they are going to end up with the mindset that, by sheer virtue of the history of the treatment of their race and by virtue of their skin color and ethnicity that they are entitled to those benefits and they are somehow more deserving of them. Government programs showing preferential treatment have created a generation of "You owe me". Do we really need that mentality seeping into the more educated sections of our society too?
Sometimes I feel that if my skin were something other than white, all of the work that I do for my future might be considered impressive.
Do you approve of affirmative action? Explain.
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My opinion is going to be biased because affirmative action does not help me. As a white American, I am going to have to work twice as hard as many of my ethnic friends in order to get into the colleges that are basically GIVING them admissions for what? We'll both be getting the same degree.
Not to mention that a lot of them are immigrants receiving many government benefits and immigrant-related scholarships, but I am less important because I am white? I forgot that white people can't be poor anymore.
I think it is crap and it degrades the education system. Students should be let in based upon their individual merits. Affirmative action isn't going to encourage minorities to reach for higher education - if they don't want to go to even free public school in the first place, how is opening the doors of a prestiguous college going to help the matter?
This only aids the "entitlement" issue. If you show people that they will get more benefits due to their race, they are going to end up with the mindset that, by sheer virtue of the history of the treatment of their race and by virtue of their skin color and ethnicity that they are entitled to those benefits and they are somehow more deserving of them. Government programs showing preferential treatment have created a generation of "You owe me". Do we really need that mentality seeping into the more educated sections of our society too?
Sometimes I feel that if my skin were something other than white, all of the work that I do for my future might be considered impressive.