Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.