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Article: Scrap affirmative action.(Leaders)(The new census figures show that America is an increasingly multiracial society. It is time to end affirmative action)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2001
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THE latest census of the United States reveals a society in the grip of a demographic revolution (see article). The old black-and-white America that produced the tragedy of black oppression and the glory of the civil-rights movement is giving way to a more complicated country-in which browns are as numerous as blacks, and in which some 7m people say they belong to more than one race. Herman Melville's observation that an American is a man who has the blood of the whole world flowing in his veins is now truer than ever. America boasts a vigorously growing population, while Europe and Japan do not. And it boasts a young population that is increasingly indifferent to old ...