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ritinster ,
There was no need to write a dissertation defending your comment. Sayak57 asked about Indians, not American Blacks or Ugandans. Also, you imply that sayak57 has more "talent" than people from the previously mentioned groups, and compared them negatively to him. That was not cool IMHO. No amount of stats or story-boarding will change my impression of your comment. No need to respond back to me. Best of luck with your applications.
well you are a consortium applicant and hence benefit from affirmative action. you are are either hispanic or african american so clearly you don't see anything wrong with it.but believe me if you are white male or asian you see this all the time. in work place,in elite colleges and it sucks. when you work very hard day in and day out and you see your seat go to a black guy or a hispanic solely because they are black or hispanic i don't think its fair.if they were better than me i would be fine with that but thats usually not true. so i completely agree with the persons comment above. the fact is that political correctness trumps actual results.
Hahaha, it looks like ritinster made an alternative account just to continue his racist arguments (account was created today, same writing style). This is so ridiculous.
I am brown-skinned(light brown, not that it matters...), but I completely agree with ritinster and mba20144(maybe same person or not I dont care). We have the same situation in India. There is a 45% reservation in India, under law in all IITs(Indian Institute of Tech, best engg colleges in India...think Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, etc), NITs(National institute of tech, 2nd best engg colleges, still incredibly difficult and my alma mater...think UCLA,UNC,UCB, UVA, etc), all medical colleges, all IIMs(Indian Institute of mgmt....they are pretty good too, the best management collegs in india) and all government/public sector jobs. This reservation is for some specific castes(think african americans) and tribes(think native americans) and other sections(think hispanic americans) that the country wants to uplift. It is very very unfortunate for the common people like me to get into good schools and public sector jobs in India. Even the merit difference in these institutes is staggering, between the general people and the reservation admitted people. For example, I could get 98.5 percentile in the MBA admission test in India, back in 2010(no work experience), and I would get no IIM calls. But a reserved candidate could get 90 percentile and get calls from all 7 IIMs.
Its sad, but it happens. I think its necessary, to uplift all sections of society. There are some sacrifices to be made for the greater good. I have no bias against them, even my wife is a reserved quota person. We just have to learn to live with it.
And so on.........