About 10 years ago I was leading the hiring of 100 engineers for a large software shop in NA. The hiring managers interviewed a bunch of local people and identified a list of great candidates they wanted to hire. Alas, when I brought the list to the executive that needed to give the final approval, he declined and said we needed to start over with candidates from India and China. Morale of the story: Stop repeating shit you know nothing about because it makes you look stupid.