Breeding

One serious obsession of the man from Pluto is the passion to have breeding outside our own department.

"They bring in new ideas and techniques," he loves to explain.
"We have to be international," so is said by the VC as well.

I am not against people outside - but it seems disheartening to employ someone simply because he is coming from elsewhere.

There was an illuminating story I learnt some years ago: A man was invited to join a new company, and seek his friend's advice. The friend asked, "Why do you want to join ?"

"Because the boss is very nice to new comers elsewhere."

"In that case you should not join," the friend pointed out coldly, "Otherwise you will become one of his own men - for whom this boss never feels precious."

PS. You know what: Although America is a well known cosmopolitan country, the law actually states that their President (and the Secretary of State) must be born in the United States.