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U.S. Justice Department: Yale Discriminated Against White and Asian Applicants

The Department of Justice’s two-year investigation into Yale University’s admissions practices has found that the school discriminated against undergraduate applicants of white and Asian backgrounds on the basis of their race. On Aug. 13, the department stated that every year, race was the “determinative factor” in Yale’s assessment of many applications. “Yale rejects scores of ...

Jack Roberts

As an Australian, Do Not Forget Your Identity

Op-ed by Yan Xia, the chief editor of Vision China Times, an independent Chinese language media in Australia. There are many Chinese who have enjoyed the welfare and freedom of Australia for years, but they have never truly accepted their Australian identity. In fact, they are quite happy to see moments when Australia gets thwarted by ...

Nspirement Staff

Chinese living overseas.

What Are the Risks of Discrimination by Algorithm?

Not only companies, but state institutions, increasingly rely on automated decisions by algorithm-based systems. Their efficiency saves time and money, but also entails many risks of individuals or population groups being discriminated against. This is the result of a study made by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at Karlsruhe Institute of ...

Troy Oakes

A woman sitting alone in a conference room.

How Chinese Discriminate Against One Another Based on Region

Regional discrimination in China is a little-discussed topic in the West since the media rarely even covers this subject. Imagine an employer in California bluntly saying to someone from Mississippi that they don’t hire Mississippians. Such incidents of regional discrimination are quite prevalent in China and the government takes little action against such things. Regional ...

Max Lu

Worker from Henan.