Equal Employment Opportunity Questionnaire: Fill & Download for Free

In the U.S., employers are required to ask if applicants served in the millitary so that they can demonstrate that they are not discriminating against veterans. The answers to these questions are kept on file, but shouldn’t be available to the people making the hiring decision.Some employers or schools might also preferentially hire veterans, but if they do, they would do so based on the information in your resume, not your answers to the Equal Opportunity questionnaire.

I lost my job as Assistant Professor at the age of 51 because of a reorganization of institutional priorities. Since that time, and in spite of numerous applications, I haven’t as much as had a telephone interview with any college or university.The problem with age discrimination is the legal term “equal opportunity”. It means nothing. Here’s an analogy: you can walk along the sidewalk, or try to walk across the road through fast, heavy traffic. You have the opportunity to do either. Which do you chose? It has nothing to do with who is actually hired or even interviewed. It does nothing to change the thought processes of the person or people who make the decisions to either interview or hire.We’ve all seen the bloody automatic questionnaires on HR websites which ask your gender, race, handicap, age etc. Those questions only exist for the potential employer to demonstrate to the federal government that they “consider” all sorts of applicants. Consequently, I refuse to answer them.

America is to the right of some Northern and Western European countries on many issues, but 95% of the world does not live there. The media loves to compare us to the few countries in Europe that are more leftist than us. I hope you see how deceitful that is.More than half the world lives in East Asia or South Asia. China is very authoritarian, and South Asia is socially very conservative and racist, as is the Muslim world and Africa.Here is a list of issues on which America is more liberal (Leftist) than most of the world, followed by a far shorter list of issues on which America is more conservative, as Americans use the term.Racism: America is one of the least racist countries in the world. I guess that makes us liberal.Affirmative Action: Can you think of a country that has affirmative action for the minority besides the USA and the UK? Some countries have affirmative action for the MAJORITY, such as Malaysia, today’s South Africa, etc. So America is quite liberal on this issue.LGBTQ issues: there are 200 countries in the world, and I can count on one hand the number that are usually ahead of us on these issues. That puts us in the most liberal 3% of the world.Immigration: Many countries don’t receive refugees. All other countries are more severe toward illegal immigrants. Many do not allow foreigners to own property. Many do not allow foreigners to become citizens under any circumstances. Many are extremely selective in giving visas (besides tourist visas).Suffrage (voting rights). America is a democracy, which makes us more liberal than non-democratic kingdoms such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bhutan or Brunei.Religious Liberty and other individual rights: America scores well. This makes us conservative compared to atheistic countries that persecute religions, such as China. But it makes us liberal compared to Islamic countries that persecute other religions.Divorce law and attitudes: Divorce is not accepted in much of the world.Gender inequality: America is liberal on this:Support for Israel, a leftist democracy surrounded by bigoted kingdoms: America is liberal again.Abortion: Abortion is illegal in many countries. That makes America liberal.Pornography and Prostitution: The production and consumption of porn and prostitution is illegal in many countries. 20 years ago, 90% of the world’s porn was from the San Fernando Valley in California. In some counties brothels are legal in Nevada. America is liberal.Foreign Policy: America doesn’t fight to gain territory or oil. It fights to keep sea lanes open for the whole world’s shipping, to reduce terrorism, humanitarian reasons, etc. Liberal in my book.Health Care: America requires hospitals to provide the best care available to anyone who walks into an ER with a time-sensitive health issue. Most third-world countries can’t afford to require that. Liberal again.Environment: Every country cares about conservation in the sense of thrift and a lack of waste, because that provides a financial benefit to humans. But only rich countries care about environmental issues that have no financial or health impact on humans. America is liberal on this too.Education: In some countries even public education is not really affordable to poor families. On the other hand, some European nations have free university for those who can get in (it’s a limited supply). America is mixed on this one.Economic liberty (Property rights): America scores well on this. This makes us conservative compared to socialist countries, but liberal compared to mercantilists and fascists. Fortunately the latter are hard to find nowadays. Mercantilism in governments today are usually described as corruption. Actually there is a lot of that in third-world countries. Also America’s equal employment opportunities for each ethnic group makes it more liberal than some truly racist societies. In some countries employment opportunities are only provided to people who have the same or similar ethnicity to the employer.Death Penalty: America is 4% of the population of the world, and it looks like we account for 1% of the executions. Liberal again!Law and Order: America can afford to put people in jail for long terms, and has high incarceration rates. Conservative.Gun rights: America is conservative on this one. But that allows the people to prevent the government from becoming authoritarian.On the hot-button issues, the blue states of America are more liberal than the red states of America.This is a difficult question to answer by looking at the platforms of political parties overseas because most third-world countries are a diverse collection of multiple ethnic groups. In such a country, people choose a political party based on the ethnicity of the party, not the policy prescriptions of the party. They do this so that their own ethnic group will be more favored by the government and less likely to be persecuted or attacked by it.——————————————————-Another way to answer this question is based on this graph from Samuel Huntington’s book “Culture Matters.” It’s based on a survey using sophisticated questionnaires. On the vertical axis, a negative number means people trust religion or tradition to know what is true. A positive number means people rely on their own feeble mind, or an “expert’s” addled mind. On the horizontal axis, people get a positive number for prioritizing freedom of speech and individualism over other values.Scoring high on the vertical axis would be associated with liberalism, as Americans use the term, because liberals are less likely to trust the Bible and other products of multiple generations and liberals are more likely to rely on what the latest talking head thought up, fads in psychology, and the opinion of other Quora writers.The red states of America would be lower on this graph than the USA as a whole (like Ireland), while the blue states would be near Britain. Different regions of the USA are culturally dissimilar.From a global perspective, supporting individual rights above the welfare of the group or the nation is considered “liberal.” I’m not sure whether the horizontal axis correlates with liberalism or not within the USA though.In the USA, since Christians have been losing the culture wars for a couple decades now, Republicans have been supporting freedom of speech and freedom of conscience much more strongly than Democrats. Woe befall the heretic who dares to question the latest gender theory coming out of academia. Don’t be more than 6 months behind on such things if you want to keep your job.Both sides accuse the other of treading on individual rights, but American conservatives are stoutly defending America’s Bill of Rights. Democrats now seem to be dominated by collectivist authoritarians, “the Left”, who care about identity group power rather than individual rights. They have displaced the “liberals” who used to support individual rights above all else.While we’re looking at that book, let’s look at how these different cultural groups do when it comes to creating a functional society that supports the ability to be financially productive. It turns out that Protestant societies, where people have the integrity to rarely rip each other off have high trust, and therefore do well financially. They can rely on their institutions to fairly enforce contracts, deliver the mail and packages, not steal from the populace, and not extort bribes, etc.The horizontal axis is GNP per capita using purchasing power parity estimates, 1995 USD.