<p>I think if more URM's came to CC, they would be $$$</p>
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I didn't think that "Less qualified" needed further clarification...people who would not normally gain admission to a certain college, earn a scholarship, be hired for a job, etc by merit of their own scores and accomplishments, but ultimately do because of their URM status. These would be less qualified people who receive an advantage.
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<p>Yes, it does because by your definition how can some one quantify and compare "accomplishments"-I understand that accomplishments are not create equally, but when circumstances are taken into account- what would a typical cc response be or perhaps would the cc response will be to completely disregarded the circumstances? Also, when it come to jobs any where--It who you know, not what you know that get a vast majority in the door than minority status. </p>
<p>Yes, and someone please do me a favor and define merit as well since someone "think[s] that "Less qualified" needed further clarification"...</p>
<p>stop being so serious and stay on the topic of soccer globalization :D</p>
<p>Here is how canadians adopt soccer (thanks for reminding me, asbereth). Back in the day (yes back in the day again) Queen Elizabeth and Napoleon were married. They had so many children that they couldn't keep track of so they named them all Vikings. These vikings didn't obey their parents so they ran off to a new world instead of living in Europe. But they didn't know what they're getting into. They went to what today we call Canada. They came to canada to play soccer becuase they couldn't play all day back in Europe (their parents were strict). However, canada is cold. It's icy everywhere. The vikings soon realized that it's not a good idea to play soccer with their feet while skating. So each of them brought along a stick and call the game hockey. WOW! The soccer ball was too big for them to hit, so they reduced the size down and called it a puck. Now, we know that every other sports are derived from soccer (even horse racing, swimming... but we don't wanna get into that). As a result, the world likes soccer except the 3 b|tch sons of British. It must suck being the parents having sons not practicing your believe. Poor Great Britain! The end.</p>
<p>chaoses are you an engineering major? i hope not. go adn do something productive.</p>
<p>this thread has become so f*<em>king bori....</em>falls asleep*</p>
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<p>yes I am an engineering major (ECE to be exact)
and also I might be teaching you this fall :D</p>
<p>I'm trying to globalize soccer here, you stay on the topic :D</p>
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<p><em>wakes up and falls asleep again</em></p>
<p>Oiram, the "worth" of people is quantified all of the time, don't you think? Consider college admissions, scholarships, jobs, athletics, etc. Who has better academic stats, who runs the fastest, who has the most relevant experience for a job, etc. </p>
<p>If not forced to, most people would not take "circumstances" into account. Nobody cares that you practiced your sport 6 hours a day if you don't produce results. Nobody cares if you studied for your SAT 6 hours a day while working full time if you don't score well. You won't be the next American Idol just because you practiced the most if you can't sing. You can't be the top salesman at your company if your numbers don't bear that out. Yeah, the whole world quantifies your worth.</p>
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean here but I think that who you know may help in certain instances, but that usually does not supercede the value of your qualifications. (Nobody wants to work with the boss' inept relative.) Minority status can offset an insufficiency of quantifiable merits somewhat (affirmative action).</p>
<p>Maybe we should talk about soccer! :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>:( NO PLEASE...NO!!!! <em>starts pulling out hair and stabbing eyes</em> :(</p>
<p>yeah let's talk soccer, the most interesting thing in the world. After all, you will gain knowledge talking about soccer. I might get hyper and excited too :D but whatever it is, it's still better than talking about something that you can't change (which is this topic of the thread)</p>
<p>so... let's focus, meditate and together we can bring soccer to the height that it is everywhere else.</p>
<p>Except that soccer will never have the status here that it does elsewhere. We have all of the seasons covered already! (football=fall, basketball=winter, and baseball=spring/summer...although hockey fans keep trying to enlarge their fan support, but blech, good luck with that!)</p>
<p>soccer in america already beat hockey in # of fans for each professional game already. As soon as president bush allow illegal immigrants to have green cards, we'll see them flooding the stadiums. That is also the reason why queen Elizabeth did an America tour last month or so to negotiate with bush, allowing immigrants to quickly acquire green cards. She wanted to globalize soccer. :D</p>
<p>Wow, it's been a long time since Ive even glanced at this thread and I'm the one who created it.LOL. It's funny how it has progressed from engineering and urm's to soccer to Queen Elizabeth. maybe I should just rename it to discuss any thing you want. In fact, come everyone all are invited!!!Discuss whateva springs in your mind</p>
<p>LMAO at reccna's comment. It has become quite boring, but very entertaining. I learned some VERY IMPORTANT things about soccer that I never knew. Like how "God created soccer." Thanks chaoses!!</p>
<p>lol I'm just doing my job of writing down history :D
history is in the eye of the beholder :D
shoot, I wish I stayed awake during my history courses so that I could write a better history of soccer...sad for 5 seconds :(</p>
<p>LOL. same here. Maybe that's why I only got a 3 in U.S.History.</p>