Affirmative Action Is an International Issue

• Published in: The American psychologist Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 144 - 145
• Main Author: Pipes, Randolph B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01-02-2007
• Subjects: Advocacy; Affirmative Action; Civil Law; Civil Rights - psychology; Cultural Pluralism; Culture; Culture Conflict; Diversity in the Workplace; Equal Education; Ethnic Groups - psychology; Global Approach; Government Policy Making; Human; Humans; Internationality; Minority Groups; Prejudice; Psychologists; Psychology; Public Policy; Social Equality; Societies, Scientific; United States; United States
• ISSN: 0003-066X; 1935-990X
• DOI: 10.1037/003-066X62.2.144

This article contains comments on the article by Vasquez and Jones (see record 2006-01690-003), which focuses on diversity and begins with a discussion of affirmative action. The current author discusses his own three related points: first, it is virtually impossible, in our current culture, to agree on what constitutes affirmative action and certainly on what constitutes adequate or exemplary affirmative action; second, our broader culture must come to grips with what it means for the self-defined interests of European Americans as well as other cultural groups to at times be in apparent conflict with the overall interests of the culture; and third, affirmative action is not a challenge unique to the United States.