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Can positive discrimination be reconciled with equality of opportunity? The term 'Equality of opportunity' is one that cannot be easily quantified, there are varying opinions as to what it actually encompasses. The fundamental aim of equality of opportunity is the proviso that every individual has equal access, and open competition to institutions and for advantaged social positions. That is to say an individual is assessed on their personal merits and attributes not a particular social group to which they belong. Positive discrimination is a generic term which incorporates different levels of social engineering, (via a system of governmental legislative intervention, and corporate responsibility) which includes the possibility that an individual could be selected to one of the same institutions or advanced social position, but not on the basis of merit, but because, (in part, or wholly due) to the fact they belong to a underprivileged group that has been discriminated...

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