[powertower]

> Especially at a government facility. In the United States. In 2011. In the tech business.

Humans have accumulated (recorded) vast sums of knowledge, and have become more efficient at building things using that knowledge, but human nature has not "evolved". The human brain has remained about the same for the last 20,000 years (give or take a few thousand years). There have been no quantum leaps here. We are exactly what we were 10 years ago, 100 years ago, 1000 years ago, etc.

That's the real problem... That people think that somehow they are "evolved" because the year is 2011. And hence the segmentation begins again... Always seeing your-group as different from other-group, segmenting everything.

A person that pretends that they are not racist, is one that pretend that they are better than the racist... The problem is they are doing the exact same thing as the racist, just on a higher level.

[bluedanieru]

Our DNA is the same. We are better fed and generally healthier (at least since the agricultural revolution), most of us are raised better than your average peasant 1000 years ago, mothers know not to drink during pregnancy (this is a big one, by the way), etc.