[hsitz]

College admissions are hardly the only arena where affirmative action operates. And of course it's not an ideal solution, but it's at least a start.

Where are you from? Quite possibly your country also has some similar sorts of policies, even if it lacks the huge minorities that have suffered past discrimination to the extent some have in U.S. You can start by checking here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

[kuschku]

Actually, Germany has been replacing Affirmative Action in most areas in the past years with purely random, or purely achievement-based systems.

Due to the simple fact that hiring people based on direct affirmative action violates the constitution.

Even the famous "womens quota" in Germany is just a quota that 30% of each gender have to be represented in a company’s board.

(The official statement of the constitutional court regarding affirmative action, which is called "positive discrimination" here, was that "even positive discrimination is, as the name says, still discrimination")