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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ho boy.  If you ever wanted to incentivize the appearance of disadvantage, here it is.  Watch as parents rush to their department store DNA tests to claim "ancestry" in faraway lands in order to claim allegiance to some oppressed minority.  Watch social failings like single-parent households, high crime rates, divorce and abuse become marketable assets.  This is disgusting.[/quote]

Oh, why didn't I get pregnant in my teens and live in that crime ridden neighborhood?[/quote]

Too bad they didn't add refugee and immigrant status as well - it takes a lot to do well in a new country and new culture especially if relatively recent

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This country is bizarre.  We are not trying to keep anyone from getting a college education.  But, please people, what country takes its most elite educational opportunities (where you should be expected to be advanced in both [u]intellect AND preparation[/u] in order to take advantage of the resources), and doles out access based on fairness or population group?  Why should we take opportunities paid for and developed through the resources of our country and give them to people just because they specifically don't come from our country?    [/quote]

It’s so painful [/quote]

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