Many people had criticized the earlier system which they said chose too many poor people and racial minorities.

许多人批评了早期的制度，他们说那种制度选择了太多的穷人和少数民族。

In the past, many American universities placed limits on the number of racial or religious minorities they would accept.

在过去，许多美国大学对他们接受的种族或宗教少数群体的学生数量进行过限制。

He also worked to change the way baseball, and the country, treated racial minorities in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

在20世纪五六十年代，他也努力改变棒球运动和这个国家对待少数族裔的方式。

You know, there's long been complaints of police brutality and discrimination in these areas, especially against lower-income households and racial minorities.

长期以来，人们一直抱怨这些地区的警察暴力执法、歧视对待，特别是针对低收入家庭和少数民族。

Well, one, higher education did not admit significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities until after the civil rights of the 1960s forced change.

嗯，第一，高等教育直到 20 世纪 60 年代的民权运动迫使改变之后，才接纳了大量的其他种族和族裔的人。

The lower graduation rate of racial minorities is one outcome.

少数族裔较低的毕业率是一个结果。

Some of the most striking findings were really about just how hard it is for certain racial and ethnic minorities to make ends meet.

一些最引人注目的发现实际上是关于某些种族和少数民族维持生计有多难。

More contentious is his argument that modern Chicago presents a comparable example of rich white people forcing racial minorities, especially blacks, to live separately and badly.

更容易引起争论的是，他认为现代的芝加哥市提供了一个可比案例——富裕的白色人种逼迫少数人种，尤其是黑人，住在环境恶劣的隔离地区里。

Some characteristics like being in the gender or racial minority in some settings actually helps you be more memorable.

在某些情况下，某些特征（例如属于性别或种族少数群体）实际上可以帮助您更难忘。

And it was very clear that once women or racial minorities became a large fraction, you really have this confusion effect present.

很明显，一旦女性或少数族裔占很大一部分，就会确实出现这种混乱效应。

Racial segregation has a long history in the United States, with racial minorities historically being segregated into lower quality neighborhoods, occupations, and schools.

种族隔离在美国由来已久，少数民族历来被隔离到质量较低的社区、职业和学校。

Instead, he says, structural racism – the kind that’s entrenched in political and legal structures – still holds back the progress of racial minorities.

相反， 他说，结构性种族主义——那种根深蒂固在政治和法律结构中的种族主义——仍然阻碍着少数民族的进步。

But part of the differences that ethnicity offers aside from race, is that ethnic groups can often (though not always) be more easily assimilated into the majority culture than other racial minorities.

但是，除了“race”之外，“ethnicity”所带来的部分差异是，少数民族往往(尽管不总是)比其他少数民族更容易融入多数文化。

After a lifetime of interacting with someone who engages in anxious niceness, what we find is that most people on the receiving end are racial minorities.

在与那些表现出焦虑友善的人交往了一辈子之后，我们发现， 大多数接受这种友善对待的人都是少数族裔。

This means that all of these contemporary complaints by people who are part of a racial minority group are invalid, because at the turn of the 20th century European migrants experienced discrimination but eventually were “accepted.”

这意味着，当代少数民族的所有抱怨都是无效的，因为在20世纪之交，欧洲移民经历了歧视，但最终被“接受”了。

The Supreme Court defines your rights if, for example, you are a racial or religious or ethnic minority and you feel as though you are being discriminated against, the Supreme Court defines how your life will be.

最高法院决定了你的权利，例如，假如你是一个少数种族、宗教或民族，你认为你被歧视对待，最高法院决定你的生活会是怎样。

The second part of the study created a controlled version where we matched images of people with titles at random and could vary how many women or racial minorities they saw.

研究的第二部分创建了一个对照版本，我们将人物图像与标题随机匹配，并可能改变他们看到的女性或少数族裔的数量。

The term was originally used to refer to the idea that women and some racial and ethnic minorities were not able to get better jobs because of some sort of discrimination against them.

这个词最初是指妇女和一些种族和少数民族由于对他们的某种歧视而无法获得更好的工作。

The 1960s and early 1970s were important years during the civil rights movement, when people were trying to create equal rights under the law for African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.

1960 年代和 1970 年代初期是民权运动的重要时期，当时人们试图根据法律为非裔美国人和其他种族和族裔少数群体创造平等权利。

And as we’ve discussed many times before, non-Hispanic White Americans tend to have higher incomes, live in better neighborhoods, and are more likely to have more prestigious jobs and better educations than racial and ethnic minorities.

正如我们之前多次讨论过的那样， 与少数种族和族裔相比， 非西班牙裔美国白人往往收入更高，生活在更好的社区， 更有可能拥有更有声望的工作和更好的教育。