本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛"We find the trend toward race-based admission policies in some American schools deplorable, as do many of our readers. Our article notes that Canadian universities select students regardless of race or creed. That, in our view, is the best and only acceptable approach: merit should be the sole criteria for entrance to higher education in Canada, and universities should always give preference to our best and brightest regardless of cultural background. This position was stated clearly in the article: “Canadian institutions operate as pure meritocracies when it comes to admissions, and admirably so,” reporters Findlay and Köhler wrote."
IS THAT TRUE? LET ME QUOTE THE WHOLE PARAGRAPH IN ORIGINAL ARTICLE.
"The dilemma is this: Canadian institutions operate as pure meritocracies when it comes to admissions, and admirably so. Privately, however, many in the education community worry that universities risk becoming too skewed one way, changing campus life—a debate that’s been more or less out in the open in the U.S. for years but remains muted here. And that puts Canadian universities in a quandary. If they openly address the issue of race they expose themselves to criticisms that they are profiling and committing an injustice. If they don’t, Canada’s universities, far from the cultural mosaics they’re supposed to be—oases of dialogue, mutual understanding and diversity—risk becoming places of many solitudes, deserts of non-communication. It’s a tough question to have to think about."
原文整篇的基调就是好大学里亚洲学生太多,排挤了其他族裔的学生.尽管作者列举了很多自以为是的理由,并且从学校官方得到回应是FALSE SETEOTYPE.但作者仍然不罢休.
QUOTE:'These positions arguably represent a missed opportunity. Universities have the potential of establishing real cultural change. It makes sense that the head of the Canadian university with perhaps the highest number of Asian students is the most candid and the most concerned. Indeed, Stephen Toope has, since his arrival in 2006 as UBC president, made the issue central to his agenda—including outreach and newspaper op-ed pieces touting the importance of making the university campus a meeting place not only of diversity but also of dialogue."
说实在的,整篇文章让我感觉到的就是一个白人种族主义者对亚洲人的优秀表现出绝望和酸溜溜的复杂心情.我不需要Maclean的道歉.对这些无脑儿我愿意表现出我的怜悯.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net