[kelnos]

> Diversity of opinion is about much more than ethnic background.

Agreed, though restricting your interactions (even unintentionally) to people of the same background as you does have a big limiting effect on the kind of opinions you'll have. It's a physical echo chamber for some attitudes.

But you can make the same parallels for other attributes: how many openly LGBTQ people live in heavily conservative areas vs. liberal? Definitely fewer. In many conservative areas, LGBTQ folks literally fear for their lives. As a consequence, conservative people have less experience and understanding of these folks, and that (among other things) leads to fear or even hate.

> Also, just to be clear, I haven't said anything about Trump in my three other comments in this thread. CTRL+F me.

Never claimed you did; no need to be so defensive about this. You suggested that people in the bay area / US tech circles don't try to consider other people's perspectives. Given that most tech people in the bay area are left-leaning, it stands to reason they're not Trump supporters. Regardless, I was merely talking about my own personal experience as someone trying to understand people with (a particular type of) different values from mine, and mostly failing.