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by throwaway_415
3545 days ago
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> mechanisms such as racial, gender, age, and cultural bias are so common. They're easy to apply, aren't entirely wrong (relatively homogeneous groups tend to operate better than nonhomogeneous ones, though there are many arguments about resilience and creativity/diversity) I'll accept cultural homogeneity having worked in different cultures myself. But if you're seriously suggesting that racial, gender and age groupings are correlated with performance and subconsciously okay, you're going to have to provide a very convincing argument. |
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On an intellectual basis, I can acknowledge, though, that high-affinity classifiers -- ones with a strong, clear, and generally readily determined distinguishing capacity -- are frequently used. Language, speech, religion, gender, dress, custom, and more. People are inherently clannish. You'll see this not only in tech hiring, but in ethnic conflicts: Iraq, schoolyards around the world, Nanking & Korea in WWII, Syria, prison populations, the Stanford Prison Experiment, Tunesia, the various ape species actors in the Planet of the Apes cafeteria, Columbia, Yemen, England vs. Ireland, England vs. Scotland, Flemish vs. Walloon, Basque vs. Spanish, various subreddits, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Israel-Palestine, and many, many more.
A principle problem of any seggregation regime is that it tends to require oppressive, often violent, occasionally genocidal enforcement to be sustained. Which is a key reason to seek integrated rather than segregated societies.
However that integration is going to have to be sustained against an apparently very-deeply ingrained resistance to doing so. And simply demanding conformance is likely to be at best only partially successful. The record of the US in that effort, well over 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, and over 150 years after the Civil War and just shy 150 years after the 14th amendment, illustrates this.
I'm not claiming homogeneous societies are better or preferable. I'm strongly suggesting they're easier to establish and sustain, and that they tend to self-organise as such.