When I signed up for college in my country, I was apalled. There was a place where you had to check a box if you were an indigenous person, a box if you were a "visible minority" (at the time, I hadn't considered that white people are a minority), and a box you had to check if you were a woman. My immediate thought was: "Isn't this explicitly discriminating people based on race and sex? Isn't this illegal here?"
Then I remembered that the college was receiving its funding from the government, so they were the ones supporting this. Seeing the discrimination in full display nearly made me refuse to continue to fill out the application, but I figured that all colleges would be the same. It did put me in a strange mood as I headed in that part of my life, though. I was also confused about why other people didn't seem to be even remotely concerned about the clear sexism and racism that was openly advertised.
When I signed up for college in my country, I was apalled. There was a place where you had to check a box if you were an indigenous person, a box if you were a "visible minority" (at the time, I hadn't considered that white people are a minority), and a box you had to check if you were a woman. My immediate thought was: "Isn't this explicitly discriminating people based on race and sex? Isn't this illegal here?"
Then I remembered that the college was receiving its funding from the government, so they were the ones supporting this. Seeing the discrimination in full display nearly made me refuse to continue to fill out the application, but I figured that all colleges would be the same. It did put me in a strange mood as I headed in that part of my life, though. I was also confused about why other people didn't seem to be even remotely concerned about the clear sexism and racism that was openly advertised.