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In the traditional
first-meeting gift exchange, BO handed nothing more
than 25 classic American films on DVD to the PM on
his visit. Mrs. BO presented the PM's children each
a plastic model helicopter that sells for $4.11. |
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It is not that Mr. &
Mrs.
BO fail to have good taste, fail to understand
diplomatic protocol, don't want to dress
appropriately for formal occasions, and do not
understand the importance of good manners. |
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Obviously
not. Mr. & Mrs. BO have no class...? Are the
American people so classless themselves that they
might have selected classless people to be the
President of the United States of America? |
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Resentment spurs Mr.
& Mrs. BO. They are victims of Affirmative Action
programs that justifiably engender animosity,
resentment, and vengeance toward accepted norms, the
right thing to do, and the society that hands them
too much before they have worked and earned it. |
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Mr. & Mrs. BO don't
want parity, that once dreamed of equality. They want to parody the America that
was cruel enough to freely accept and promote them
for reasons of their difference, rather than reasons
of their earned achievement. |
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People of minority
groups who have character and embody a strong work
ethic know they don't belong when they have not
legitimately earned their positions. They realize
that they have, in the first place, been perceived
as less worthy and therefore given extra points for
no reason other than they were different in ways
that society perceived as being less capable.
Affirmative Action programs ensure that recipients
will feel less worthy. After the unearned promotion
-- the push to the front of the line -- minority
people have difficulty earning other
peoples' respect and acceptance because they are
seen as not having fully paid their dues. |
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Proud, able, thinking
people of of all sort, including minority groups, ask
themselves, "Why else might I be in need of
Affirmative Action programs?" They ask themselves
openly and subliminally "why". These high-charactered
individuals carry the stigma of not having actually
achieved as much as those whom they displaced and
whose places they have taken. |
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Mr. & Mrs. BO know
that they were handed priority positions at college
entrance time, when selected for their jobs, and in
the winning of the presidential election. In each
case they know in their hearts that they were not
treated fairly. They were moved ahead due to
society's perception that they were less able and
therefore need extra points. They know that they
were grouped with others who were perceived as
less able. In their integrity
they carry the understanding that their differences
caused them to be handed unearned points, positions,
and titles. That feeling naturally causes
Affirmative Action recipients
to
resent the people and society that handed them
undeserved rewards . |
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Surely people of
minority groups wonder why they are selected out,
handed special prerogatives and favors, and moved to
the front of the line. |
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When anyone of
integrity is handed excess, he knows that he was
perceived as undeserving or less able to make
progress on his own without extra points. Resentment
is the product. |
