I have worked in Central Asia for the past decade.  On one project, I had people on my team from 30 different countries.  On the project I am working on today, I counted people from nine countries at a staff meeting one recent morning. It's fascinating. One has to tune one's ears to understand English spoken with so many accents to avoid loss of intent in the discussion. But it's worth doing because the perspectives are fascinating.  Without fail, people on my team ask me what is going on in the U.S.  My Mexican (Sonora) construction manager fumed about the U.S.-Mexico border controversies, asking why should President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) should keep all the Africans, Indians (Hindu in Spanish), and Bangladeshis in Mexico as they awaited their asylum claims, instead of in the U.S.  I told him that his country isn't a diverse one. I added that if he wanted to continue with his country as it is,...(Read Full Post)