Affirmative Action Affirmative action has been a highly controversial issue in America since its creation. The policy that was put in place to make up for the poor treatment of racial minorities quickly became reverse discrimination: encouraging the professional and academic worlds to make decisions about a person based on their race which is, by definition, racism. The policy now serves as an offense to both sides – giving a race-based advantage to minorities against majorities and considering said race minorities to be innately disadvantaged. Affirmative action is a policy that puts a stigma on minority groups and ironically implies that a minority status is disadvantageous. College admissions should discontinue their use of affirmative
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University admissions departments have the opportunity to do so much more than “judge a book by its cover”, and admit students based on potential, talents, and a number of genuine, valuable, and positive characteristics, as per the goal of their school and proactive direction of the country. The cultural diversity desired by college campuses is simply a group with many different attributes. Considering socioeconomic status, country of origin, primary language, etc. would create just as much - if not more - diversity of culture, thought, and idea than by judging specifically by race, which has appeared to create only a wildly negative atmosphere of judgement, ridicule, and segregation. Americans so often tend to view a group of people and develop an opinion of them based solely on what they shallowly observed from a distance, such as height, weight, or facial expressions, and form their arguments and stances around an observation that happens to offend them. What many Americans forget is that even if a group of people appear the same, they are still individuals with unique and varying skills, strengths, and personalities beneath any kind of initial, uneducated observation that is encouraged by the ignorance of affirmative
University admissions departments have the opportunity to do so much more than “judge a book by its cover”, and admit students based on potential, talents, and a number of genuine, valuable, and positive characteristics, as per the goal of their school and proactive direction of the country. The cultural diversity desired by college campuses is simply a group with many different attributes. Considering socioeconomic status, country of origin, primary language, etc. would create just as much - if not more - diversity of culture, thought, and idea than by judging specifically by race, which has appeared to create only a wildly negative atmosphere of judgement, ridicule, and segregation. Americans so often tend to view a group of people and develop an opinion of them based solely on what they shallowly observed from a distance, such as height, weight, or facial expressions, and form their arguments and stances around an observation that happens to offend them. What many Americans forget is that even if a group of people appear the same, they are still individuals with unique and varying skills, strengths, and personalities beneath any kind of initial, uneducated observation that is encouraged by the ignorance of affirmative