That the seeming inferiority of the nonwhite population stems from cultural and economic disadvantage and has no genetic basis.

Minor impairments, inherent characteristics and environmental, cultural or economic disadvantages do not count as disabilities.

About 45 percent are picked using a combination of academic merit and more subjective factors, including essays, extracurricular activities and whether the student has overcome cultural or economic disadvantages or physical disabilities.

And her unfamiliarity with American private schools, she said, put her at a cultural disadvantage in a second interview.

Racial considerations for these resources were created as a recognition of cultural disadvantages faced by such groups, not because they were biologically different.

Towards the end of the novel, Remi compares her life to that of Othello, due to her cultural disadvantages.

The Natanga people, recently Christianized and still largely pagan, are somewhat at a cultural disadvantage vis d vis the Telek peoples, who have embraced Moslem culture since the sixteenth century.

Campus diversity could be achieved, they say, without considering race but by considering factors like geographic origin, cultural or economic disadvantages, or specific talents.

And the critics often positively endorse programs giving a special break to people who've overcome economic or cultural disadvantage.

Mr. Brownstein, who spoke no English when he entered kindergarten, also discounted cultural, racial and sexual disadvantages inherent to the tests.