Good humor about it is a mark of ‘cosmopolitanism.‘ In a large business building in New York City whenever I’d go down to the mail room there would be couriers

Good humor about it is a mark of ‘cosmopolitanism.‘ In a large business building in New York City whenever I’d go down to the mail room there would be couriers and maintainence men hanging around. Each a different ethnicity and shade of color. Most of the conversations I heard there were from them trading insults in friendly fashion. Most of the jokes were ethnic stereotypes. It offered them a chance to connect with each other. Out of this play, tolerance is made over time.