diversity, inclusion, equality
economic inequality
affirmative action:
promoting the education and employment of minorities
tokenism:
practice of making only a symbolic effort to be inclusive to minorities to give appearance of racial / sexual equality within a workforce
capitalism and free market vs govt intervention and socialist policies
progressive tax
flaws and strength of meritocracy / rise of elitism
gender inequality
workplace
education
victimisation (sexual harassment)
transgenders
equal rights
universal suffrage (equal right to vote)
LGBT rights
right practice religion may conflict with the above
Eugenics:
set of beliefs and practices that aim at improving genetic quality of a human population by excluding certain genetic groups judge to be less desirable
tech as solution?
enable disabled / counter general differences between female and males
racial inequality
eg. 2017: announced that SG's presidential election would be reserved for those of the Malay community
- PM Lee said it is in support of multiracialism, admitted sg-reans were not truly 'colour blind' = minority unlikely to win in typical election
"Black Panther" broke box-office records and "Coco", a Pixar film set in Mexico with an almost entirely Latino voice cast, won 2 Academy Awards
2018: The Time's Up movement founded by Hollywood celebrities
- created a legal fun for lower income women seeking justice for SA
- advocated legislation punishing companies that tolerated SA
- pushed for greater gender parity in studio & talent agencies
eg. 2018: Tokyo Medical University admitted deliberately altering entrance exam scores for more than a decade to restrict the no. of female students that become doctors
eg. 2018: Thailand's Royal Police Cadet Academy (RPCA) announced that from 2019, it will only admit men = female rights group protested
eg. 2016: Oxfam reported that the wealth of the poorest 95% dropped by 38% between 2010-2015 while the richest 62 people increased by $500 billion to $1.7 trillion
eg. Oxfam claimed that in 2017, the world's richest 1% own as much wealth as the bottom 82%
eg. 2018: revealed that Harvard artificially capped the number of qualified Asian-Americans from attending school so as to advance the less qualified students of other races
eg. 2018: India's supreme court ruled that gay sexual intercourse is no longer a criminal offence
eg. 2022: SG ruled that gay sexual intercourse is no longer a criminal offence. but re-enforced marriage laws to ensure that only straight couples could get married
eg. Naomi Osaka captured the US open title = 1st JP born tennis player to win a Grand Slam championship
disabled
eg. SG enable was set up by the Ministry of Social and Family development to support disable = integrate them into workforce
eg. medalists of Paralympic games receive less cash awards from SG govt than their counterparts of Olympic games
=> 2016: Yip Pin Xiu awarded $200,000 while Joseph Schooling won $1 million