US Politics Thread

bluethrunthru said:
That would be the America founded on immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, Span, France, Mexico, Cuba, Holland, Portugal, Nigeria, Chad, Jamaica, China, Japan, Vietnam ........ need I go on?
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OT -- I don't think Span can win the World Cup.

It's a bridge too far.
 
bluethrunthru said:
That'll be the Country Club with the Mexican waitresses the African barman and "Willie the Groundskeeper! will it lol?
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Class and race are the big dividers.

I worked for a company based in Philadelphia, a great city with one of the largest black communities in America. Of course I saw Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans all the time, but not so much where I stayed and not at all in senior management. I was an export salesman, the company hired locals for Russia, Latin America, Australasia and so on but for North America, Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East it was all white guys and one woman.

This unconscious bias is everywhere, not just the States, it just seems more incongruous there given the nature of their population, but truth be told in my thirty odd years working for corporate America and Britain I mostly swam in a sea of fairly well heeled, white, middle class blokes. They made all the decisions coz that's the way it's always been and for many that's the way it's always going to be. It's not overt racism (though some would say otherwise) it's subtler than that, white people like them running everything, it's all they've ever known.

So when that Republican states....

"Many of these folks want to do is change the entire fabric of the United States of America and just make it another multi-nation country."

What he means is "these folk" no longer exist out there, they're threatening not just to come to the USA, but to invade his world, the "fabric" of the United States. Fabric, as in the power that holds it all together, you know, the one that matters.
 
The perfect fumble said:
This unconscious bias is everywhere, not just the States,
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True - I used to work for a firm which required us to do an on line training module about how to spot it and how to address it in the workplace - they were proud of it in fact. So you would dutifully do the thing when required then look up and see a team of white mostly middle aged men in grey suits who drove grey saloon cars to get there and realised it was all a tick box exercise. When you asked where was the Asian manager, where was the black trainee and why no women on the team you were shrugged off with an "oh they never apply for jobs" type of response.
 
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