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Overambition as Disability: Discrimination of Excellence

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  • Julia M. Puaschunder

    (The New School, Parsons School of Design, USA)

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This paper draws attention to discrimination of excellence in order to propose an inequality alleviation strategy in connecting overachievers with discriminated-against minorities. Discrimination of excellence is the unjust treatment of outperformers and overachievers. Defining discrimination of excellence and describing the implicit mechanisms of aversion against excellence depicts overambition as handicap. Overambition may thereby become a disability. This article first introduces the concept of discrimination of excellence, to then draw inferences about overachievement being comparable to a disability. Lastly, discrimination of excellence alleviation strategies are proposed.

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  • Julia M. Puaschunder, 2020. "Overambition as Disability: Discrimination of Excellence," Proceedings of the 19th International RAIS Conference, October 18-19, 2020 008pj, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
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    1. Julia M. Puaschunder, 2019. "Discrimination of Excellence: A Research Agenda," Proceedings of the 14th International RAIS Conference, August 19-20, 2019 009JP, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
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      Aversion against excellence; Disability; Discrimination of excellence; Inequality; Justice; Outperformance; Overambition;
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