It is one of the purest meritocracies in the world.
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This country's colleges are not the meritocracies they claim to be.
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Judge Gorton is wrong that colleges always aspire to be meritocracies.
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People in both the exclusive and open meritocracies focus intensely on increasing skills.
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Ad agencies are not meritocracies or free of sexism and there are not equal opportunities.
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Our meritocracies play favorites because the data we use to make them equal is insufficient in its scope.
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But free markets, like meritocracies, never really work like that; the rich get richer, and the poor face impossible choices.
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We've been under such a spell that we've actually been calling industries with 85-95 percent men "meritocracies" with straight faces.
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The rich tend to see themselves as better than the poor, a proclivity that is enhanced and even socially sanctioned in modern meritocracies.
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After all, it contrasts so starkly with the meritocracies we claim to work in and the good we profess to do in the world.
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Company executives and investors have often claimed tech companies are "meritocracies," where hard work and skill are valued and race and gender are ignored.
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And even individual sports like golf and tennis, which don't have unions, attempt to operate as meritocracies, with transparent ranking systems and pay structures for every event.
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An obituary from JP Morgan Chase said Shipley sought to create "meritocracies" when it came to staffing a company after a merger, rather than adopting a win-lose attitude that pushed out talented employees from the acquired firm.
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The schools function largely as meritocracies; an admission policy based on auditions offers a nontraditional path for those whose talents lay outside chemistry, math and English, and helps even the playing field for students from low-income neighborhoods.
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The atmosphere of impunity for predators who see it as their right to create climates of sexual intimidation, workplaces, campuses or even homes which are not meritocracies but transactional spaces where in order to keep one's job or wellbeing one must somehow endure or comply with these unlawful advances, must be shut down.
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Another commentator argued that the article inaccurately perpetuated the myth that universities functioned as meritocracies, without taking into account that minorities have to overcome social hurdles, such as racial discrimination and prejudice. It was also argued that the article justified the idea that whites are entitled to attend university, because it never explicitly condemns, and therefore indirectly condones, Alexandra and Rachel's belief that certain universities were "too Asian".
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An example of this was Chinese student self-declared messiah, Hong Xiuquan, who despite ranking first in a preliminary, nationwide imperial examination, was unable to afford further education. As such, although he did try to study in private, Hong was ultimately noncompetitive in later examinations and unable to become a bureaucrat. This economic aspect of meritocracies has been said to continue nowadays in countries without free educations, with the Supreme Court of the United States, for example, consisting only of justices who attended Harvard or Yale and generally only considering clerkship candidates who attended a top-five university, while in the 1950s the two universities only accounted for around one fifth of the justices. Even if free education were provided, the resources that the parents of a student are able to provide outside of the curriculum, such as tutoring, exam preparation, and financial support for living costs during higher education will influence the education the student attains and the student's social position in a meritocratic society.
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