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mekenlast Monday at 10:49 PM4 repliesview on HN

I’m an American and I just had the thought - if I was working in Japan at a Japanese company and I had the opportunity to hire, would I have a bias to hire other Americans?

Honestly probably, since I understand them the best.


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sashank_1509last Tuesday at 12:36 AM

I’d disagree. I’m not American or British but and in my experience Americans or British are the least ethnically biased people on the planet. Any other group, I could believe that they are biased but not Americans, or British. Something in their particular culture right now.

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JuniperMesoslast Tuesday at 1:28 PM

And this is why it's in the interest of Japanese people in Japan not to make it easy for you to have an opportunity to hire people for jobs in Japan.

influxlast Monday at 11:25 PM

And that seems suboptimal for a Japanese company?

deauxlast Tuesday at 11:10 AM

I've actually been in such a situation and I didn't. Or if I did have such a bias it must've been rather small as none of the applicants benefited from it.