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.

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

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

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.

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.