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"Minority applicants are especially encouraged"
I saw this on a poster that was trying to get people to be RA's. At first, I thought affirmative action is such bullshit. Then I got to thinking of their true intentions. Maybe it is because there are quite a few minority students on campus. Let me elaborate: the minority students are usually assigned to a floor with other people of the same group, or at least given a roommate that is in that same group.
My reasoning is that maybe that minorities "understand" each other better, and would be better off with an RA of the same ethnic/racial group, even though that is the only thing that separates them from the majority group (i.e. they all speak English). This too is the wrong way to go about things.
I thought my college embraced diversity and the understanding of different cultures. Isn't keeping the students of different race separate interfering with that?
I work with people of many different races/ethnicities (actually, I have trouble because of the multitude of accents) at one of the cafeterias on campus. We don't ever have any problems with not understanding each other, and actually treat everybody equally, because we have the same pay and position. If we went by affirmative action standards, my minority co-workers (by the way, I'm pretty much as full-blooded white American as you can get--as in my ancestors moved here in the 17th century) would get special consideration for raises, promotion, and hiring. However, that would create dissent between workers. Why can't we do this everywhere? In other words, why is race such an important factor???
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