In some countries — and most especially ours — the interplay of these two desirable characteristics can be very contentious.
For years, a similarly burning debate has raged in the US related to the desire to keep its university enrolments diverse so as to reflect that nation’s increasingly multi-racial make-up. Of late, a most interesting twist to this traditional majority-entitlement-versus-minority-exception debate in most countries has developed in the US.
The model-minority tag has slipped a bit as ugly racially-tinged characterisations have been employed to explain away Asian-Americans’ “over-achieving” proclivities and, most crucially, to justify placing non-academic handicaps in order to check their preponderance in some American campuses.
Like in the US, our public-university entry policies — indeed the whole panoply of affirmative economic and even public-service recruitment policies — have been endlessly burning questions in public and private forums alike.
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