[gaahrdner]

The first time I visited Mountain View, I was absolutely blown away by the "sameness" of the people living there. Racially, it is much more diverse than my hometown of Austin, but I could never escape the feeling, after talking to random people, that I was stuck in a scene from "The Stepford Wives."

[gaius]

If everyone is a 20-something graduate of the same handful of universities then of course there will be a monoculture.

[cimmanom]

OK, that's a descriptive explanation. That doesn't mean it should be normative.