There is a difference between jobs/skills and ethnicity. The difference is the choice: (1) One does not choose where one is born. And one cannot change that.

There is a difference between jobs/skills and ethnicity. The difference is the choice: (1) One does not choose where one is born. And one cannot change that. (2) But one can choose what programming language one learns or what type of job and how one wants to do it. So from the first point it follows that a group of people born somewhere are protecting something they didn't had any part in creating. I'm talking here about ethnicity or maybe citizenship, but I think it can be easily demonstrated that the place one is born will affect one's believes (religion, culture, preferences, taste) most of the time involuntarily and unconscious. So to sum up: there is no moral high ground in protecting something that happened to you before your were born and saying that others are misfortunate because they were born in other place, as no one has a choice in that, And this is very different, in regards to discriminatory side, than a job at a company. The company is a choice, it is created voluntarily by the people working there. So it is the result of their nurture. Actually my reply is related to a more general argument about movement of people in the world and what is the basis of denying it. edit: formatting