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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coming (as I do) from a no-majority city with lots of immigrants from around the world, the lack of integration in federal offices in the DMV is totally shocking. Where I used to work, you rarely saw any more than two people from the same group in any office. People from all backgrounds socialized together at lunchtime and after work. [b]Where I work now it's 90% white men (in the power roles) and 90% black women (administrative). The lunchroom looks like 1950. [/b]

There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not thinking about how to get back home. Sadly, DH's career is here for now...[/quote]

This is the way it was when I entered the workforce 25 years ago.  I got a clerk typist position at a federal agency to work my way through school and it was a real shock to me.  The greater shock is that it's still that way today.  Not just in the lunch room, but at senior-level staff meetings you'll see all the minorities clustered together.

Everyone looks out for their own.  It's not so much racism as it is the seemingly insignificant little decisions and judgments that are influenced by perceptions, and perception is influenced by the natural affinity we all have for people who look like ourselves.

People talk about merit, and I applaud that, but you'd have to raze the entire thing to the ground and start from scratch to make that happen.  [b]"Merit" can be arranged, and as long as you have people who are sitting in power positions because of such arrangements, that will continue.  You don't have to be fair and equitable in the federal government, you just have to look like you are.[/b][/quote]
This applies to the private sector as well.
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