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I know that sociology is an elective in a lot of US colleges, and I thoughr more people would haveI taken it. It pretty straightforwardly explained that every aspect we hold inevitably drives our social interactions and life experience whether we like to or not. From what I've gathered from my friend's experiences and the attitutes I've seen onlone, the sentiment of "why does it matter to be X" is very much prevelant, and being on the receiving end of unknowing racism really does hurt.

But at the same time, understanding that point also means understanding that people who do not have your traits may not be able to fathom these sorts of experiences (though experience in general is hard to transfer) which results in a kind of dismissal. I'm not saying to forgive, but I understand, and it'll be all I think about as I help educate (and/or bulldoze disrespectful) people.

It's not always about racism. I preferred hiring people that I knew were good workers or were referred to me by people I trusted to have good judgement over someone who was maybe better on paper. An unfortunate side effect of that is my social circle early in my career was mostly other white people but I never rejected or thought less of someone because of their race. It was just that the places I worked always made it a pain in the ass to reopen a position when someone quit or was fired and I couldn't afford to gamble on an unknown. If no one was referred to me then whoever I hired was based off qualifications and how they interviewed. As I got older and met more people of different backgrounds those recommendations became more diverse.

All that being said DEI policies do solve the problem (other than the having to hire an unknown that would be hard to replace if they don't work out). It would be better for people to expand their social circle and meet more people on their own but I don't know how you would enforce that.

Just wait until Silicon Valley Google coders are all Indian foreign born making 35K/year living on the Google campus. DEI works both ways.