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Affirmative Action and Sowell's "Inside American Education" • Part 4

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Affirmative Action in India

In india, affirmative action is for whom intially it was for the untouchable. This is what percentage of the population aboutf i remember correctly, about 16r 16 %. And these are people who are so low they don't even count in the cast system. It's understandable people want to do something to make things better for them. What actually happend, however, is that extremely few untouchables actually are able to make use of any of these preferences and quotas. In this next clip from the same interview, soell reveals how preferential policies lead to high levels of resentment among the people who are disadvantaged by the policies. He explains why the levels of resentment are out

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