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I've been working at a smaller company (<20 employees) for a bit over a year now, and we're all quite similar. Most people are <30 years old, so internet cultur

I've been working at a smaller company (<20 employees) for a bit over a year now, and we're all quite similar. Most people are <30 years old, so internet culture has taken over. Politically, we're all similar. Quite happy being here, and not having to worry that hr might try to police us.

xwolfi 5y ago
I work in Hong Kong and I dont speak Chinese so I work only in heavily multicultural teams. It's common belief around me the best teams are mono cultures, for instance a philipino team in my prev company, who all moved together to HK when we restructured, was extremely satisfied, spent all their time together and some couples even sprung up. Meanwhile the mexicano-hindi-chinese team next to them was miserable and my franco-pakhistani bi-cultured team was alright (even if we vomitted the odd Chinese teammate management would attempt to add once in a while). It's not that people are actively racist/xenophobic, it's that you're very lonely if you dont have someone to share language, inside jokes, or even beliefs and values with. I work in an enormous company now having around 100k employees all over the world with no choice but to mix. Well, the indians will work best woth other indians, all my chain of management is french and the Chinese keep to themselves nonetheless. It's insane this is not more explained / studied / accepted, or I havent looked enough. Our own monocultured european global management, all blonde and proper, still tell us about the wealth of diversity we must cultivate. They still send blonde managers from Europe to replace the asian people they cant work with at the top...
istorical 5y ago
Ironically, if it were the case that people didn't "feel [they] were able to be [themselves] at work", then you wouldn't know if some of those 20 people were faking their political views in order to fit in. Making an assertion that 'politically, we're all similar' sort of ignores the whole proposition that some may feel the need to hide their views in order to avoid political prejudice.
- nigma1337 5y ago
  I guess I never really thought about that, actually the more i think about it the more likely it seems, as my boss has been quite hostile towards socialist ideas.

xwolfi 5y ago

I work in Hong Kong and I dont speak Chinese so I work only in heavily multicultural teams. It's common belief around me the best teams are mono cultures, for instance a philipino team in my prev company, who all moved together to HK when we restructured, was extremely satisfied, spent all their time together and some couples even sprung up. Meanwhile the mexicano-hindi-chinese team next to them was miserable and my franco-pakhistani bi-cultured team was alright (even if we vomitted the odd Chinese teammate management would attempt to add once in a while). It's not that people are actively racist/xenophobic, it's that you're very lonely if you dont have someone to share language, inside jokes, or even beliefs and values with. I work in an enormous company now having around 100k employees all over the world with no choice but to mix. Well, the indians will work best woth other indians, all my chain of management is french and the Chinese keep to themselves nonetheless. It's insane this is not more explained / studied / accepted, or I havent looked enough. Our own monocultured european global management, all blonde and proper, still tell us about the wealth of diversity we must cultivate. They still send blonde managers from Europe to replace the asian people they cant work with at the top...

istorical 5y ago

Ironically, if it were the case that people didn't "feel [they] were able to be [themselves] at work", then you wouldn't know if some of those 20 people were faking their political views in order to fit in. Making an assertion that 'politically, we're all similar' sort of ignores the whole proposition that some may feel the need to hide their views in order to avoid political prejudice.

nigma1337 5y ago
I guess I never really thought about that, actually the more i think about it the more likely it seems, as my boss has been quite hostile towards socialist ideas.