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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 8042543" data-attributes="member: 61529">Good questions. Off the top of my head, start with Group Dynamics for Teams (Daniel Levi), which will at least have references to the actual research.I think your analysis assumes that everyone living in a country has the same cultural experience, but the key point here is that this isn't remotely true. No number of generations of living in the US makes black people and white people have the same experiences, because the culture itself has lots of racial biases that constantly affect them. So, when people switch countries, yes, assimilation changes which country they're getting their cultural background from, but it doesn't necessarily give them the same cultural background.A second-generation Asian in the US could well have personally had the experience of being rounded up at gunpoint and marched to a barbed-wire camp on the basis of skin color, which the first-generation Polish immigrant would not have had. Not all the differences are quite that stark, but they're still differences that have quite a bit of influence on what people experience, and what kinds of things they think about.A friend went to lunch with some coworkers, and discovered that all of the black coworkers in their middle-class office job drove non-obvious circuitous routes to go from the office to lunch, because they had to avoid the places where the cops would pull them over on suspicion of driving-while-black. None of the white coworkers were even aware that this was a thing, and none of the white coworkers habitually allowed 15 minutes for driving anywhere because of the probability of getting "randomly" stopped.</blockquote>

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