Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Just Jaeckin, who directed the first Emmanuelle, Francois Giacobetti chose to set his film in the exotic Orient, where scenes of ethnic oddities serve as the background to this very weak plot. But where Jaeckin tried to use Bangkok to show the decadence of the French diplomatic corps, Giacobetti's Hong Kong is merely an angle through which to provide new combinations of multiracial sex. Only the photography is beautiful, with occasional panoramic views of the harbor filled with sampans relieving the tedium of those human characters...
...definition racist to treat individuals differently on the basis of their race, yet this is precisely what affirmative action quotas require. Under these quotas individuals are hired for jobs or admitted to schools with their racial, sexual or ethnic backgrounds as a key reason for selection. As a result, other people lose school or job opportunities because they are from the wrong race, sex or minority group. Such quota programs are inherently racist and unjust...
Furthermore, quotas promote racism by encouraging people to think and speak in terms of racial and ethnic groups. The widespread use of quotas will cause people to perceive others in these terms instead of as individuals. As the focus on race grows, so does racism...
...applications for jobs and school admissions, acceptances should go to the best qualified person available, regardless of race, sex or ethnic background. This is the only just, moral and practical basis for such choices...
...reasons of justice, morality, effectiveness and practicality, therefore, quotas are wrong and misguided. Employers and admissions officers should establish race and sex-blind systems for selecting applicants. The goal in fighting racism should be the establishment of a fair process based on merit, without regard to race, sex, or ethnic group, instead of an end state with various percentages of racial and minority groups represented in jobs and schools...