Confirmation Bias [wikipedia.org] ("a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true").
My bias is for global trade, interaction between people. Having lived in and frequently visited the developing world, I am indelibly in favor of nice, smart, African/Latino/Asian geeks, who study their hearts out reading technical books. When I trade and do business with people from foreign cultures, we take risks on each other, and achieve mutual benefits. When trust is rewarded, "good karma" results.
BAN's bias is against globalization, against free trade on an uneven playing field, against externalization of value and cost. Jim Puckett, their bloke spokesperson, is as honest in this bias as I am in mine. He is distrustful of globalization and trade, so distrustful that he wants "repair and overhaul" to be considered "waste management".
BAN has signalled a willingness to compromise, in an attempt to reconcile the truth of existence of Geeks and Techs of Color with the bias against trade. They have begun to acknowledge the refurbishing market... but would terminate, among other things, the Rolls Royce aircraft refurbishing factory in Singapore.
Jim has been polite to me, even gracious, and has offered other compromises.
