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reverse discrimination

逆向歧视,反向歧视,逆向选择,逆向思维

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies, as in college admissions or employment, intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities.

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Examples

  • But  Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.

  • In Scandinavian countries this discrimination has been dramatically reduced.

  • But most of this gap, say the researchers who carried out the study, is due to discrimination.

  • So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.

  • After the Iranian Revolution, discrimination took on a sectarian flavor.

  • If we had shot 'em without discrimination, the cowards would have got bold, seein' that they weren't safer in rear than in front.

  • When, however, you learn by rote you know the task as you learned it, and not in the reverse way.

  • Let the student continue this comparison till he attains very nearly the brevity and discrimination displayed by Mr. Killick.

  • As before suggested, let the pupil recite the foregoing ten events forwards and the reverse way several times from memory.

  • The backs are mostly cut the reverse way of the grain to the present rule, forming what are now termed "slab" backs.