Word: bias
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Staff members charged last week that Stager and the other committee members began the review with a bias in favor of directing the museum towards a more academic focus at the expense of its public programs...
...that each newcomer was welcomed by a fledgling society entirely free from fear and bias. In 1798 Congress raised the residency requirement for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, largely to exclude political refugees from Europe who might foment revolution. Later some states imposed taxes on alien ship passengers they feared might become public charges...
...nation's school systems are not being swept by the kind of wholesale changes that traditionalists feared would result from such programs as New York City's controversial "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum and Portland, Oregon's baseline essays, which aim to reduce the perceived Eurocentric bias of U.S. education. The ideological debate about multicultural education, brewing for years on college campuses, does not seem to have leached into primary and secondary schools, where math, science, geography, etc., are still regarded as important. Nonetheless, vexing but essential questions prevail: How are students who know no English to be taught? Must...
...nativist sentiment that foreigners are somehow inferior to the American- born may be the nation's oldest and most persistent bias. (Curiously, it was not until 1850 that the U.S. Census took note of where Americans were born.) Apart from slaves, Asians (principally the Chinese) suffered most from this prejudice. Seeking fortune and escape from the turmoil of the Opium Wars, Chinese first began arriving in California during the 1840s. Initially, they were welcomed. During the 1860s, 24,000 Chinese were working in the state's gold fields, many of them as prospectors. As the ore gave out, former miners...
After the Chinese were excluded, Japanese became the principal concern of nativists who feared America's contamination by a "Yellow Peril." The shameful nadir of this bias followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Under pressure from security-conscious Army officials, the Federal Government exiled more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Despite this humiliation, 30,000 Japanese Americans served in uniform, and the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion became the most decorated...