Summary
The organizers of Oscars have invited a record number of new members to vote in next year’s Academy Awards, because of criticism of a lack of diversity at this year’s ceremony. In addition, all of the acting nominees at February’s 88th academy Awards were white, so the protests led to an unprecedented debate about racial equality in the film industry with social media such as Twitter. In response to this boycott, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences agreed to a shake up of its members to bring in more women and members of ethnic minorities.
Opinion
Recently, more and more people take objection to racial and sexual discrimination,so discrimination is decreasing. At the same time, positive discrimination is increasing. Positive discrimination is the act of giving advantage to those groups in society that are often treated unfairly. I think positive discrimination is not good thing. It is mainly because positive discrimination lead to discrimination as a result. Surely, positive discrimination can help solve the problems. However, it may discriminate those who we try to save from discrimination to give them special treatment because it admits that they are socially disadvantaged people and those who should be protected to give advantages more than necessarily. I think we should treat everyone equally and there should not be those who save and those who is saved. I know almost all companies or groups or things like that who discriminate positively want to show that they don’t discriminate and respect minorities to the world because otherwise, they would be criticized by the society. Therefore it is difficult to solve not the discrimination but the positive discrimination. I think positive discrimination is a proof of taking a step to eliminate discrimination. That’s why I think it is important to keep trying to treat people fairly and in the near future discrimination will be exterminated.