A former job developer reveals that meatpacking recruiters would explicitly request workers of specific nationalities, such as Burmese refugees. This was based on a belief that they were more docile and harder working than others, creating a discriminatory hiring pipeline that treats people as commodities.

While socially problematic, residential clustering of minority groups is politically advantageous. Uniformly distributed minorities risk getting 0% of seats even with significant voter share, as they can't form a majority in any single district. Clustering allows them to secure representation by creating districts they can win.

Leaders focus on obvious cultural differences like language. However, the divide between departments in the same organization (e.g., military vs. State Department) can be larger and more insidious because it’s less apparent, leading to misinterpretation rooted in different organizational norms and assumptions.

Resistance to mass immigration is often mislabeled as racism when it's a defense of cultural uniqueness. The core fear is that blending all cultures creates a bland 'beige' monolith, ultimately allowing the most aggressive and cohesive incoming culture to dominate.

Meta has physically and organizationally separated its new, high-paid AI researchers in 'TBD Labs' from its existing AI teams. By issuing separate access badges, Meta has created an internal caste system that prevents collaboration and is likely to cause significant morale problems and knowledge silos within its most critical division.

Immigration's success or failure is determined by values alignment, not ethnicity. The US historically integrated diverse groups because they shared a foundational ethos. Current conflicts arise when immigrant populations hold fundamentally different core values from the host nation, creating societal friction regardless of race.

A lack of cross-cultural interaction outside of work creates professional blind spots. Managers may innocently misinterpret unfamiliar communication styles or slang as a lack of talent or initiative, undermining efforts to build diverse and inclusive teams.

The root of rising civil unrest and anti-immigrant sentiment is often economic insecurity, not just a clash of cultures. People convert financial anxiety into anger, which is then easily directed at visible, culturally different groups, creating flashpoints that can escalate into violence.

People incorrectly attribute societal friction to race when the root cause is a lack of shared beliefs and values. The intense division between the American left and right—often within the same race—proves that assimilation into a common value system is the key to social cohesion, not ethnic homogeneity.