well, again, there's discrimination and discrimination. the harvard
study found that "white" names got 50% more responses than "black" ones.
the french study [1] found that "french" names got TEN TIMES as many
responses as north-african-sounding ones. more evidence of the
relatively high acceptance of diversity in the US.

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 13:45 +0530, Thaths wrote:
> PS: http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf
> (Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field
> Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination) is an excellent paper

-rishab

1. http://www.francetoday.com/articles/news/10.28.2004.html


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