People don't like to argue with people they deem incapable of understanding the topic at hand. I hit your hyperbole and read no further because I deemed your take unintelligent and poorly argued. Hence #downvote
It honestly wasn't meant to be rude but I thought most other people would also stop reading and dismiss it and it wouldn't be productive if you took that to mean you'd argued a great point and stumped the community. Your assertions stomp all over sensitive issues on all sides of the issue, you use race-related language that could be considered inflammatory. If your point was about cultural sensitivity on both sides of the divide then perhaps you could have started by showing some in your post. Hope that helps to clarify.
Not really... I used some inflammatory language as an example of how paranoid thought would germinate as fear of an unknown brought someone to the extreme of the "what if". Kind of like how parents fears can grow into a near certainty that their child has been abducted by an axe murderer because he's an hour late coming home from school.
The rest of the post is about fitting in so that you don't trigger that fear response. In essence, comporting yourself in the same manner as is the standard in business in the area you find yourself in (i.e. no surprising behavior). I've made a habit of taking this approach, and it's worked quite well for me. I also know a number of others who refused to do this, and are now bitter over the rejection they suffered (sometimes to the level of violence, actually, which didn't help at all).
