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ELI5: Positive Discrimination in the US and how it is positive.

I have lived in the US after moving from the UK a few years ago, I find the concept of positive discrimination baffling.  In the UK we don't really follow the concept much if at all but here in the US South it seems to cause some bitterness.

I find the concept of positive discrimination to just further work to separate races and focus on differences rather than to just focus on being 'People' rather than races.
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Because if you just focus on the 'People' then Jeff in HR who secretly doesn't really like asian women that much may subtly never hire any asian women for the company. Or Susan is convinced that all Muslims are terrorists, and therefore she makes sure to shred all the applications that have 'funny names'. The fact that there are plenty of modern studies showing that applicants who 'sound' white or have 'regular' middle class white names get a huge percentage of callbacks for jobs- EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE LITERALLY THE SAME RESUME as someone with an 'ethnic' sounding name- means that it is still impossible for the workplace of the US to simply 'focus on the people'. 

Discrimination happens, and the majority still comes out on top in terms of hiring and wages, so all the people bitching and moaning about how it really hurts race-relations are only saying that because they're in the majority and they've never been on the other side of the fence, because it doesn't benefit THEM or their family and friends in any way, so therefore clearly it must be bad.