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Is the need of Affirmative Action a matter of time?


I’ve been wondering the reasons for colleges refusing to accept students completely based on ability, since every student is a unique individual, and the saying of “All Asians are roughly the same” are obviously false and not widely accepted. The answer, as a result, diverts to another aspect, which is to remedy those minorities groups. In the past three hundred years, white Americans have indeed owed other racial groups to some extent. The position of black people in the society has always seem to be a decision made by the white. Consequently, Affirmative Action can relieve the tension created by social inequality. However, if implementing remedy is the case, will Affirmative Action still be a controversy in the future when discrimination is not a such serious issue as it is now (or the time will hardly arrive)? Will people abandon the Action when there is no need for compensation anymore? Nonetheless in another sense, equality is partly determined by people’s education level, which indicates a interrelationship between the former and the latter. Hopefully, the ideal situation would be that college’s student body could represent the society’s racial body. To achieve this, people need to figure out the reason of Asian American having a relatively higher score, and if there is need to either improve K-12 education or to modify application process, in order to find out if the unbalance ratio is solvable.