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From Chew Kok Liang

Recently, the US Supreme Court rejected race-based affirmative action at US colleges and universities.

It said that such action “lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints”.

Further, “the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual – not on the basis of race”.

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