Post by formerkiguy on Jun 22, 2011 11:22:28 GMT -4
In today's world there is a lot push to hire minorities to satisfy quota's or some special interest group like ACLU. Sometimes this creates less qualified candidates, who take same tests (but those tests are always challenged as being too hard for some people) who are given preferred treatment to again satisfy special interest groups. Some of these people turn out to be great assests to the respective company/ agency.
However is it time to re-think all this prefix-American culture? I say if you are an American than simply say american - not Irish-American or Indian-American and so on. My opinion there should be two groups to identify when applying for government jobs and companies who are forced to hire certain races. These two groups would simply be - American or Foreign National.
American means you are a citizen, Foreign National means green card holders or work visas. I know there will still be groups fighting for equal rights no matter who you are but atleast this would eliminate black/ white/ asian/ hispanic races on applications. If you are an American citizen it should not matter who you are and putting simply American as ethnic choice this may alleviate many biases or forced hires because of who you are.
Yes there may be - say 10% of your workforce have to be FN's but again, this may streamline applications for government and lead to less of these discrimination lawsuits.
Would this be legal? Remember this is the "soap box" thread... Thoughts?
However is it time to re-think all this prefix-American culture? I say if you are an American than simply say american - not Irish-American or Indian-American and so on. My opinion there should be two groups to identify when applying for government jobs and companies who are forced to hire certain races. These two groups would simply be - American or Foreign National.
American means you are a citizen, Foreign National means green card holders or work visas. I know there will still be groups fighting for equal rights no matter who you are but atleast this would eliminate black/ white/ asian/ hispanic races on applications. If you are an American citizen it should not matter who you are and putting simply American as ethnic choice this may alleviate many biases or forced hires because of who you are.
Yes there may be - say 10% of your workforce have to be FN's but again, this may streamline applications for government and lead to less of these discrimination lawsuits.
Would this be legal? Remember this is the "soap box" thread... Thoughts?
