Ding Ding. Some of my coworkers I’ve worked with for years, but no one knows my opinions about politics, religion, or money (which I have very strong opinions about) because I don’t talk about them. At work they are the ‘toxic triad’.
I work in an office of mostly H1B contractors from India and the funny thing is, they’re not afraid to mention any of that stuff. And nobody gets into a fight about it.
But again they’re probably more, er, “normal” (and actually broad-minded) than Americans are today.
Americans are culturally sabotaging themselves by becoming intractable about discussions of the things that matter the most in life.