Some issues do assume too much
The issue being "Affirmative Action":
The Issue
After a recent high-profile case of a minority student being refused admission to a primarily 'white' college, civil rights activists, conservatives, and teachers are up in arms about affirmative action and ethnic equality in education.
I'm not taking a stab at affirmative action itself, however, I DO
have a question : What if your nation IS NOT a WHITE NATION?
Ballotonia
29-03-2004, 16:15
Good point.
Do you have a suggestion for a better phrasing which would apply more generally? One that still reads well, that is.
Ballotonia
Desudoragon
29-03-2004, 19:17
I would suggest using Bigtopian and something else. You know, as they do with the television issue about portrayal of minorities on TV.
Tuesday Heights
30-03-2004, 06:10
Perhaps, issues could be integrated that are approved based on such matters as generalities rather than specifics.
SalusaSecondus
30-03-2004, 06:14
Good point, that really needs to be changed to "Bigtopian".
Good point, that really needs to be changed to "Bigtopian".
But Bigtopian is the minority group.
The Trilateral
03-04-2004, 05:48
Good point, that really needs to be changed to "Bigtopian".
But Bigtopian is the minority group.
Change it to something like Jenniferian.... ::shrugs::
Eta Carinae
03-04-2004, 05:51
You can change 'white' college to 'rich' college.
Tannemirt
03-04-2004, 06:59
Absolutely! We're struggling with this in Albia, Cottman IV, and Newish York. Issues seem to assume that....
countries are inhabited by human beings (not norns or clangers, etc.)
the time period is contemporary (not future or past)
technology is as in RL (not based on magick or matrix mechanics, etc.)
a form of currency is used
institutions such as marriage, schooling, bureaucratic government, etc., exist and are identical to those found in the US/UK
I could go on, but it would be futile and redundant.
SalusaSecondus
03-04-2004, 07:25
The issue has been fixed.
HC Eredivisie
03-04-2004, 14:47
How can you fix something that ain't really broken? :wink:
In that case take a bat, break the thing, and then fix it.
SalusaSecondus
07-04-2004, 19:56
How can you fix something that ain't really broken? :wink:
We fix cats, don't we?
HC Eredivisie
08-04-2004, 09:05
How can you fix something that ain't really broken? :wink:
We fix cats, don't we?
I don't know, I'm just an ignorant Dutch person :oops: