I was riding my bike to the store yesterday when I heard one of my friends shout behind me. Apparently she was heading that way, too. I slowed down to allow her to catch up. Read More »
minority
"I am fine, thank you, and you?" Thoughts on being a minority
By Shimmeringstar - Posted on April 13th, 2008
Affirmative Action?
By natalie.bopp - Posted on April 4th, 2008
In 1978 there was the Supreme Court ruling for affirmative action. Then in 2003 a group of University of Michigan Law School applicants brought a case to Supreme Court about this same ruling.
What is affirmative action?
It could be defined as giving a little more weight to minorities, so that they have a better chance of getting in, but what does this "minority" include. Read More »
Underrepresented
By Tokimeki - Posted on March 13th, 2008
We all hear and read a lot about racism, the struggle of minorities, and lower class poverty. We're also inundated day-to-day by the whimsical tales of the extreme upper class in Hollywood and such, but has the public conscious forgotten the middle-class of America? And since when did it become such an ugly thing to be Caucasian? Read More »
Whites To Be Minority in US By 2050 at Current Trend--The magic 8-ball sees a race war in the near future.
By weezyf - Posted on February 16th, 2008
Tagged: Black
• current trends
• green
• Immigration
• majority
• minority
• United States
• white
• Shared responsibility
"WASHINGTON — Immigration will drive the population of the United States sharply upward between now and 2050, and will push whites into a minority, projections by the Pew Research Center showed Monday."
Subtractive Schooling: Losing Your Self in School
By Xose Milintica - Posted on February 13th, 2008
Subtractive Schooling
What happens if you are not the stereotypical student, if you don’t fit the mold? Schools act like filters, sifting through students trying to find which ones don’t fit our society, if you don’t fit you either allow yourself to be molded or you are rejected. Read More »
Who is really the minority?
By lemmonkat - Posted on October 15th, 2007
Tagged: College
• discrimination
• equal rights
• majority
• minority
• Racism
• reverse discrimination
• scholarships
• Broad prosperity
A reflection on minority scholarships
By bat_hayotzer - Posted on September 4th, 2007
Tagged: academia
• africa
• caucasian
• Financial Aid
• international students
• minority
• reflection
• scholarship
• Better future
What's going to happen with the changing ethnic culture of the United States? I've been wondering about this for a while--since I saw something, which said that by (what was it...) 2050, the Caucasian population of the U.S. is going to be in a minority status. Read More »
