> In ethnic prejudice, there’s no clearly defined interest.
> Ethnic bias is bad, but it’s not a conflict of interests.
Okay, so - for sure, if you're from an opposite "frictioned background" and you can interview someone neutrally, you should be able to.
But if you have an ethnic prejudice, you literally have an interest against the person you are interviewing.
> But when a conflict of interest arises, the next questions are “when did it begin?”, “when will it end?”, “how big was it?”, and “can we mitigate it somehow?”
(one example)
> when did it begin?
hundreds of years ago
> when will it end?
not soon
> how big was it?
the US literally fought an entire war over it
> can we mitigate it somehow
Yes, by having a variety of people from different backgrounds interview the candidate.
> But if you have an ethnic prejudice, you literally have an interest against the person you are interviewing.
The original comment by throwaway_dcnt -- "Example problematic pairs for candidates/interviewers (not including the cast situation) include: Indians and Pakistanis, Serbians and Bosnians, Greeks and Turks, Chinese and Japanese." -- doesn't make any qualifications. I read it the same way that icelancer seems to: they make the determination themselves, assuming it's going to be a problem without actually establishing that it will be. If that is the case, that is literally racism.
> Ethnic bias is bad, but it’s not a conflict of interests.
Okay, so - for sure, if you're from an opposite "frictioned background" and you can interview someone neutrally, you should be able to.
But if you have an ethnic prejudice, you literally have an interest against the person you are interviewing.
> But when a conflict of interest arises, the next questions are “when did it begin?”, “when will it end?”, “how big was it?”, and “can we mitigate it somehow?”
(one example) > when did it begin?
hundreds of years ago
> when will it end?
not soon
> how big was it?
the US literally fought an entire war over it
> can we mitigate it somehow
Yes, by having a variety of people from different backgrounds interview the candidate.
That wasn't that hard, was it?