 | DrEntropy (37)
03/23/2006 | America has greater social equality than just about anywhere on earth. It also has greater economic inequality than any wealthy democracy. Whether or not these two things are compatible in the long run (the economic inequality only dates back to the last 25 years), it's not an attribute of the world's 'greatest' nation.
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 | Djahuti (56)
01/26/2006 | I would rate this as a FIVE if it were put into practice more often.I know too many people who have expreienced discrimination on the basis of their sex,skin tone,religion,sexual preferences etc.Perhaps the worst inequality is that of the haves and have nots.It seems that the son or daughter of a judge,senator or billionaire can get away scot free with behavior that would land other people in jail.
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 | SZinHonshu (44)
01/23/2006 |  The Civil War, The Civil War Amendments, suffrage for women, Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Affirmative Action, Loving v. Virginia, employment aimed anti-discrimination laws based upon gender, age, national origin, religious beliefs (and now even protecting cross-dressers), case law striking down race-based property re-sale prohibitions/covenants as unenforceable, college scholarships limited to minority applicants ...
The list goes on and on. Anyone who studies United States history realizes that the American experience has been an unprecedented march, on a national scale, to equality and egalitarianism for all citizens.
There is no country, I repeat there is and has been no nation that has made such an unrelenting push, spanning centuries, ultimately aimed at providing equal opportunity for all people regardless of race, national-origin, gender and religious background.
And anyone here who would (or has) marked this category with a 1 or a 2, I would love for you to flesh out and put substance upon your view that my assertions are substantively wrong or even partially off the mark. Please come out and say something. I would be thrilled to hear a detailed, fact-based explanation as to how I missed the boat on this one.
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