Jan 10, 2007

Una baja más

Muy relacionado con lo que venimos hablando por acá, me parece que hay que aceptar el hecho de que la corrección política está matando al sistema universitario de los EEUU. De Thomas Sowell en su última columna. Honestamente impresionante:

A hundred years ago, there was talk of a "yellow peril" because of Chinese and Japanese immigration to the United States in general and to California in particular. Today, there are echoes of that notion in a front page headline on the education section of the New York Times of January 7th.

"At 41 percent Asian, Berkeley could be the new face of merit-based admissions. The problem for everybody else: lots less room at elite colleges."

Anybody of any race who takes a place at any college leaves one less place for somebody else. Does an Asian American take up any more space than anybody else? Are they all Sumo wrestlers?
This hand-wringing about too many Asians is an echo of the past in another painful way. Back in the early 20th century, various elite colleges decided that there were "too many Jews" applying and set quotas to restrict the number of Jewish students admitted.


Yo sigo insistiendo con la misma cantinela de siempre. Las posibilidades de éxito de un país, una sociedad o de cualquier otra organización son directamente proporcionales al nivel de meritocracia que hayan alcanzado. Lo mismo aplica para el sistema universitario de EEUU. Su enorme éxito se debe a su muy marcado apego histórico a un estricto sistema de premios y castigos. Reemplazarlo por uno basado en la corrección política es sencillamente suicida.

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