Sao Paolo's Gonna Have... a Straight 'Pride' Parade? O_o

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Kasz216 said:

Well actually, most were made after then...

regardless, those contraints largey don't really exist anymore.

So you have to ask...  what makes a poor white person not worthy of help when compaired to poor people of other races?

Let alone say... races like Asian people who actually have the stereotype of being BETTER then average when it comes to inellegence.

It's easy to call such systems just when you look at things from the terms of trying to get some numbers of certain categories to line up....

but when you look at the indivdual people effected... it's harder to justify race based polcies.

It gets even trickier when you realize a lot of the people who benefit from race based scholarships are likely middle class or higher, because they are well... more prepaired for economic success since the scholarships just look for people of a certain race who are likely to succeed.

So you often end up with poor people not being able to get into college while rich or middle class people of another race get a free ride.  Are these scholarships largely helping black people rise up in society, or are they being largely used to seperate the Upper and Middle class of black people from the poor?

These reasons are why a lot of people prefer need based funding.  You get money based on your need, no matter who you are.

I guess the fact that there is a non-white middle class does show that a affirmative action may not be a necessity anymore. Needs based funding actually sounds like a great ideea. It would be quite laughable if someone like Obama's daughters got into college on affirmative action, even though they obviously don't need it. I'm curious though, wouldn't people in your country see the ideea of needs based funding as a 'communist/socialist' thing?