| highwaystar101 said: On a side note to this topic. A few years ago my mates university (Aberystwyth) received an ultimatum from the government because they thought the percentage of white students was too high. They now have to Have a racial "Monitoring and target setting" program to achieve a higher percentage of minority students. I mean Wales is 96% white British, of course the university will have a high percentage of white British students. |
Most places in the United States do this to extreme degrees. We've had many laws requiring certain levels of minorities in certain areas of the workplace and eduction not based on any merit, but entirely based on racial preference.
It's a horrible injustice that's been done to people. Barak Obama nominated a justice for the supreme court that recently upheld a case involving a fire department.
You can read about the case here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
Essentially, there weren't enough minorities that had a passing grade for the test, so they threw it out - despite there being plenty of whites and hispanics to pass the test.
What's ironic is that Ricci v. DeStefano was initiated by a hispanic arguing the validity of Title VII. Yes, the hispanic's test that was thrown out due to not enough minorities was the person instigating the lawsuit.
The big problem I have is that the further we entrench the ideal of racial preferences from a hiring standpoint, the further we argue that blacks, hispanics, or whatever are of an inferior stock. The problem is that values, character, and intelligence are entirely dependant on the measure of the man or woman, and not the color of their skin.
As for the OP: Put whatever you want. I'd go with 'white' because that's what you mostly are, but hispanic would be worth more points, sorry to say.
FootballFan - in the US, we're taught the exact opposite. We're taught that African Americans and hispanics are worse off than whites, so we must do everything possible to make their lives better via hiring and housing preferences. It's a sick thing that we've went the opposite way by reinforcing steriotypes in the name of equality, when we're just keeping them down as we aren't reinforcing positive values in their cultures.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
