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Originally Posted by Ray
We call it 'reservations' in our country.
Reservations are for the following classes:
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes
Other Backward Caste
Moslems
It is a huge issue, but then the reserved seats in govt and colleges are all taken by the children of those who benefited by these reservations and did well and got their children better educated.
Those who have not as yet been able to take advantage of these reservations continue to be deprived and are making no headway since the reservations are being 'usurped' by those families who have already taken advantage of this and have benefited.
This type of reservations (for political reasons) have also been extended to what is called the OBC (Other Backward Castes [who actually are not backward at all]).
To ensure that the OBCs who have benefited no longer get the benefit and instead other deprived people amongst the OBC get it, these benefited OBC are called the "creamy layer" and are kept out of the reservation quota.
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Actually if affirmative action was to assist people with economic disadvantages then I would agree, but this isn't how it works at all. Espiecially in America, I seen plenty of chinese students who have been immigrants to the U.S with little money and worked hard to get into good colleges and schools. They received no help at all.
In America it is like for the SATs:
Blacks: +230
Hispanics: +185
Asians: −50
White: nothing
In other countries there are quotas.