ALTRAV, if I send $5 can I have your autograph?

One issue is among Abo culture (from what I've read) is a higher rate of domestic abuses. If nothing else having more within that community go to college to change that element of their culture, then it's a positive. Regardless of positives or negatives of college life, that aspect might be a change of culture, regardless if they are real abos or anything else.

Dear Paul,

You've got more patience than me.

Ttbn,

// Just how interested do you think that 96% of the population should be in the university attendance of just 4% of the population//

Well, you seem to be :)

Nice definitional slide, from 'equality' to 'equal worth'. As human beings, we are all entitled to the same range of opportunities, rights and obligations - that's 'equality' in the broadest sense. Whether somebody accesses those aspects of human rights is up to them, and most certainly many don't, and many abuse those human privileges. So most certainly, not everybody is of 'equal worth', but all should have the opportunities to be of 'worth'. Whether you and I are of equal worth is very debatable, I'm sure you would agree, but I would defend your rights to equal treatment, opportunities, and obligations like anybody else.

Joe

Loudmouth, I agree with you in one hand.
If I understand you correctly, we should all be given the same or equal opportunity.
Am I understanding you correctly?
OK, I agree, so what is your view on the fact that only a few and not all those who apply to go to uni, get in.
Why aren't they all allowed to proceed up the education ladder to get a degree?
I don't think it's fair to stop someone from trying.
I think it's prejudicial to not allow everyone in and then let the cards fall where they may.
Let the students themselves realise after a certain time or after a few tests, that they're not cut out for that career, and not have the rug pulled out from under them, before they even start and been tried and tested.
Someone may not stack up on the day, but warm up once in and on the study circuit.
So it is that many uni eligible kids never get to TRY, because of some pathetic discriminatory system.
You can never know who will make the next big discovery, if you don't let EVERYONE have a go!
On the subject of abo's and uni's one thing is also worthy of consideration.
Removing the emotion for a second.
Uni attendance is directly linked to the number of kids with mixed parentage.
As the number of parents of mixed (abo/european) blood increase so to will the number of kids from these unions, go to uni.
It's the European factor that will influence their ability to qualify for uni entrance.

NNS, domestic violence is not a cultural thing, it is a socioeconomic problem. Poor people with low levels of education tend to have a lot more issues with lower tolerance levels than the average. The poorly educated will resort to violence as a first response far more often than normal. If domestic violence ever was accepted as culturally normal behaviour, then cultural change has made it unacceptable today.

In some tribal cultures although violence was an accepted part of everyday life, violence towards women was not accepted. The violence today exhibited among indigenous people is not the result of some past cultural practice, but more the result of disadvantage in a modern western society.