[Yan Wang]

Discrimination occurs differently per person... you may try to coax them to do something but in the end it's always that person's free will.

I haven't seen that much discrimination in FIRST... on our team, one of the mentors (not mentioning gender) seemed to have a problem with Steve and I sometimes getting frustrated at people who screwed things up... well, we mentioned it to the person that screwed up regardless of who was doing it, we'd get frustrated; just because it happened to be a larger percentage of girls was not our fault. That in itself is not supposed to be a sexist remark. What I feel like pointing out is that sometimes descrimination will be used against someone. In this case, a mentor seemed to think that we were being sexist even though it was more of "screwingupist". Another example, even though I'm part of a minority, I think affirmative action is a pos because it gives unequal oppurtunity. In fact, I'd rather agree with the Bush administration's stand on it; base grants/scholarships on family income and not genitalia or race.