Affirmative Action Policy and Changing Views

Anthony Libertella, Sebastian Sora () and Samuel Natale

Journal of Business Ethics, 2007, vol. 74, issue 1, 65-71

Abstract: Critiquing any practice, theory, or law, requires understanding the characteristics of the environment which created a need for this law. There are hundreds of different cultures in the world, and each one has its own set of norms, characteristics, and values. What in one country is perceived normal, ethical or unethical, right or wrong, may not be the same somewhere else in the world. The first civilizations begun in Africa and Europe many thousands of years ago when people were hunters and nomads, it is not unreasonable to suspect that many of those traits and characteristics have been socially transferred and/or inherited by future generations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

Keywords: Affirmative Action; culture; discrimination; government policy and Affirmative Action; racial weighting; correcting past discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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