Question

Where is the balance point for government efforts to make up for past discrimination and unintentionally causing new discrimination? How can government give one group of people an opportunity (in order to help them overcome the active discrimination of the past) without disadvantaging other groups?

Answer 1

Answer:

One of the ways governments try to make up for the past discriminations is through educational opportunities.

For example, a formerly colonial government creates a scholarship for the students of indigenous origin. Meanwhile, if a scholarship is funded for a student of indigenous origin, does it mean that this opportunity is possibly taken from the child from the non-indigenous origin?

In order to prevent this new form of discrimination, a government has to find alternative sources of funding for this scholarship. It could cooperate with successful business people of indigenous origin, who would love to fund a scholarship but do not have institutional capacity to do it right.