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Re:The Myth of American Meritocracy by mudil on Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:03PM (#4848740)
As some who is Jewish from the former Soviet Union, and who was denied even to take an entrance exam to a Moscow college, I am saddened to see that American educational admission process looks more and more "Soviet" nowadays. Kids are denied opportunities because of their ethnic or social background, in a supposedly free and fair country!

But this is just a tip of the iceberg. The American groupthink of political correctness, lowest common denominator, and political posturing toward various political/ethnic/religious/sexual orientation groups is rotting this country inside out.

Worse things are yet to come.

/rant over

Re:The Myth of American Meritocracy by mcguire on Thursday November 29, 2012 @03:29PM (#4850071)
"American educational admission process looks more and more 'Soviet' nowadays"

Be careful when choosing your enemies. You become them.