The Melting Pot

[lederhosen]

One thing I do like about where I work is the mix of people we get here. Working my way around the room...

Thomas, from Austria.

Me, Australian/US.

Sophia, Australian of Greek extraction.

Blanka, Australian of Polish extraction.

Cheryl, from Canada.

Isabella, from Quebec, which - as she will happily explain to you - is not Canada.

David, from the USA.

Jasjit, from India (I think... Sikh, anyway.)

Lina, another Greek-Aussie.

Natasha, from Siberia.

Another Thomas from somewhere Germanic.

Another Thomas, from India.

Ian, from Australia.

Plus the others who are out of the office at the moment (Jordan, and others I can't recall.) And that's just one *room*. It's like a United Nations in here.

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[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

(nods nods) Ayup. Sometime I need to write about my own labmates. Like the post-doc fellow who shares the desk behind me. Who spent part of her medical school years serving in the volunteer ambulance corps during the street fighting at the end of the Romanian communist state...

[stilkil.livejournal.com]

This is one of the reasons I like working for a european multinational. Its not _quite_ as varied as your office, but the guys of black african extraction, and the female australian muslims in purdah are just as accepted as me with the fire-engine red hair and the tattoos and piercings.