Word: ethnicization
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...have applied. Affirmative action meant wide advertisement of opportunities to insure that prospective minority applicants had adequate information. It meant searching in previously overlooked areas for well-qualified minority group members and working to improve the qualifications of all those who remained underqualified, regardless of their race, sex or ethnic background. These efforts are all quite laudable and have received widespread support, as they should have...
...today affirmative action also means the imposition of racial, sexual and ethnic quotas. It now includes, for example, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s order that one black schoolteacher be hired for every new white teacher until a certain percentage of Boston schoolteachers are black. It includes quotas for firemen and policemen, even though hiring standards had to be lowered to meet the required percentages. Affirmative action quotas now apply in occupations ranging from construction labor...
These quotas also now apply to academic institutions. To be acceptable to the federal government, a university's affirmative action program must include goals and timetables to remedy "deficiencies" in areas of "underutilization" of minorities. The goal is to equalize the racial, sexual and ethnic proportions of personnel in academic institutions, according to Walter J. Leonard, Harvard's affirmative action czar. Goals, timetables and proportions are all euphemisms for quotas, without which the charges of "deficiency" and "underutilization" wouldn't make any sense. In fact, the demand for stricter quotas with closer compliance was the main point of the recent...
America, therefore, is power, space, democracy. It is the land of every experiment, of every curiosity, even of every excess, all absorbed finally in the crucible of progress, just as all those people of diverse ethnic origins were absorbed who came to the New World, often to find refuge, always to find a field for their energy and their imagination. You have remained in many respects a nation of pioneers, and your society retains an exceptional dynamism. To quote Tocqueville, whose thought has been a shaping influence on our liberal society: "The idea of what is new is intimately linked...
...believe it is produced by cultural pressures. Dr. Murphy's view of the problem among the Irish goes down the middle: though schizophrenia probably requires a genetic predisposition, it is triggered more often where the Irish are unmixed with other races, less often when the presence of other ethnic groups eases the pressure of Irish doublespeak...