I moved this one off the page  A common misconception is that affirmative action is automatically synomous with benefits for minorities However majority groups have been afforded affirmativeaction advantages such as for the Fijians in Fiji and the Malays in Malaysia  That seems counter to the very definition of affirmative action  By this criterion the antiJewish laws in early Nazi Germany were affirmative action as were the Catholic penal laws in England in the th century