最新英奏报刊毯魂Unit5 Political System Return Background Information A new effort to gather data on ethnic origins is stirring up a fuss Critics see ethnic data as an assault on the republic's secular principles,and detect a nasty echo of Vichy-era identity documents.SOS Racisme,an anti-discrimination group,is among the most hostile.It has collected over 100,000 online signatures for a "campaign against ethnic statistics".Not only would this be anti-constitutional,it argues.Classifying people by race would also encourage discrimination,not prevent it,and reduce identity to "criteria from another era,that of colonial France,or Vichy".Fadela Amara,a government minister ofAlgerian origin,went 最新英美报刊选读_Unit 5 Political System Critics see ethnic data as an assault on the republic’s secular principles, and detect a nasty echo of Vichy-era identity documents. SOS Racisme, an anti-discrimination group, is among the most hostile. It has collected over 100,000 online signatures for a “campaign against ethnic statistics”. Not only would this be anti-constitutional, it argues. Classifying people by race would also encourage discrimination, not prevent it, and reduce identity to “criteria from another era, that of colonial France, or Vichy”. Fadela Amara, a government minister of Algerian origin, went Background Information A new effort to gather data on ethnic origins is stirring up a fuss