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> As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial

It did always use to be like that. In the 70s and 80s there was a focus back on individuals regardless of their race, gender or origin. This trend to put quotas goes with the wave of political correctness that started pretty much in the early 90s.

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Yes, but when they used purely merit-based standards, some groups consistently scored lower than other groups. That was deemed unacceptable, so discrimination was reintroduced to the process.

Affirmative Action started much earlier than that.

At the government level, certainly - but in the realm of private enterprise this is way more recent.

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