Turning in the Time Language
The wave of European and American populism has caused sustainability of the political system, which is based on the universal principle, especially the modern free and democratic system of science and rationality. Maybe it is only a historical accident in a century?Under the impact of the scientific and technological revolution and globalization, is the social foundation of this system disappeared?
On March 12, the US Department of Justice formally sued a case of college enrollment fraud cases. From the involved in the number of people involved, the number of accused, and the amount of bribery involved, it was called the largest enrollment scandal in the United States.This case has caused the elite political system that the United States and the entire Western world since the Second World War, which has also fallen into a deep crisis.
This case is roughly many upper -level people who are wealthy. From the company's owner to the Hollywood actor, it has colluded with a number of university enlistment consulting companies to create a brand -name brand for children with fake resumes, bribing university sports coaches, employers for testing gunmen, and buying inspectors.University entrance opportunities.
This case involves many top famous universities, especially Stanford University and Yale University, which pay attention to sport, and both universities have sports coaches directly to accept bribes, which opened a convenient door for many wealthy children to impersonate sports.According to the Harvard University Report Dark Red (Crimson is Harvard School), at least six Harvard alumni prosecuted lists, including a legendary college entrance examination for the Gunnam, how much the employer can take the test to take the test to behave on behalf of the test to behave on behalf ofHow much score.The total number of bribes and donations involved in the case is tens of millions of dollars.
Back to elite politics, this is the translation of the word Meritocracy in English. Others also have translations such as wing, elite management, talent rule, and talentism.This is a new word of sociology, which generally represents the principles of the upper elite of society based on personal talents, not the family background.This is a kind of improvement in the aristocracy rule of western society for a long time.Even in the United States without a hereditary aristocracy, the Blue Blood Family in the Northeast has long been the main body of the upper elite.
The key to elite politics is that the educational system for the emergence of social elites must be strictly based on personal talents to select and cultivate future social people.The implementation of elite political principles is the earliest reflected in the enrollment system represented by Ivy University, which is particularly used in the standardized university entrance examination SAT (and later ACT).In this sense, the Meritocracy principle can be translated as a selected admission.The education of Ivy University is therefore known as the admission ticket of the upper society in the United States.
The latest case of the US Department of Justice shows that this selected admission system has been strongly corroded by money.Social status has become the new hereditary noble.The Merral Center of Meritocracy Collapses of the Title of the Atlantic Monthly Website of the Atlantic Monthly explains the problem very clearly.The New York Times Wall Street Journal and other elite media such as the Washington Post has followed up and reported.
Frozen three feet, not a day cold.The erosion of money in the recruitment process of Ivy Famous University has been in a long history, but in recent years, it has intensified.This is the natural reaction of the continuous intensification of American society's competition: Elite education has become a prerequisite for maintaining the status of the upper levels, so it becomes an important goal of maintaining the social status of the next generation of children.EssenceSome people have long stated in a large number of statistics: prestigious school education has increasingly hereditary privileges.The latest big case is nothing more than explaining that this educational competition has expanded from a legally way to illegal means.
Within the legal scope, money has affected the opportunities for elite education. It has been educated from noble kindergarten to various reinforcement preparation training.Social service projects other than academic studies have various high -priced Lei Feng strategies.For example, the New York Times reported that there were rich men and wives who could show off the extraordinary overseas volunteer experience when applying for a prestigious school for children, and specially set up an orphanage in Africa.Harvard School News recently disclosed the case of the school's enrollment and care for the huge donations to the enrollment of the parents and children of alumni.As for illegal behavior, there is also a case of cheating in the New York Long Island College Entrance Examination in 2011: Many high school students hire gunmen to take the test on the SAT and ACT University entrance examination to get high scores.
By the way, one does not involve money directly, but examples related to social resources are a proof of the doctor, indicating that the candidates have special physiological or psychological disorders, and need SAT and ACT organizers to give additional time or individual test venues.Statistics show that most candidates who have obtained such special care come from wealthy families.
The new major case will have a considerable impact on the enrollment system of prestigious schools, especially the Harvard University such as Harvard University, which has involved discrimination against the Asian lawsuit.One possible victim is the most significant sign of heredity mdash; mdash; the policy of taking care of alumni children in the prestigious school of Ivy.At least in the near future, this is a good good for Asians.
The author is engaged in scientific research in North America
