> if an Indian becomes a manager, soon all his department becomes Indians This exact phenomenon plays out in India as well at a more granular level and across

> if an Indian becomes a manager, soon all his department becomes Indians This exact phenomenon plays out in India as well at a more granular level and across all job families and public/private sector companies. The more you zoom in more granular it gets. E.g., South Indian manager prefers South Indian reportees, a manager in Karnataka prefers someone from his caste, and so on. I wonder if it's an Asian specific phenomenon. Where family, regional, clans etc., affiliation trumps meritocracy. I've heard similar stories in Indonesia too where relatives or those from same islands are given preferential treatment by the bosses.