Re: America and Europeans
First time that I heard of affirmative action was from my ex, who when she returned to South Africa worked in a workforce recruiting agency. She told me that companies called her to recruit personnel, and gave a series of requirements who she said that she could met with many of the job-seekers who she had in the archives. But then, finally, they demanded that the person was a Black, and there her trouble started because they didn't meet the requirements.
I believe that both affirmative action and political correctness are terms coined in and exported from Canada.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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