Discrimination is the norm in SE Asia. The US has plenty of racial issues, but they're in a different form. Here, race is often drawn along the lines of religio

Discrimination is the norm in SE Asia. The US has plenty of racial issues, but they're in a different form. Here, race is often drawn along the lines of religious, political, and cultural lines. In fact, when someone crosses enough religious and political lines, they are considered ethnically different. Ethnic issues in the office include: taking off shoes at work, toilet paper or lack of it, policy on alcohol and non-halal food at the workplace, Friday/Sunday prayer policies, dog policy. We've had people burning incense in the office. We've had people playing prayers on loudspeaker every morning. On one team, we'd only buy vegan non-garlic pizza to be inclusive. So I think here you actually have to go to significant effort to be inclusive.