druckmefunk
The recruiting process puts you with 3 other guys of different cultures and makes the group carry out problem solving exercises.
Err...there were a few English, a Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman on my batch. Now I know the Brits do indeed come from a different culture, but we managed to get by anyhow.
I once worked at a certain asian company where I saw a few of the types you wouldn't want.
They were mostly thick headed ex RAF types who treated all locals as if they were coolies.
Embarrassing in the extreme.
Aussies seem to have the same bad attitude in smaller degrees.
We Paddys don't have a post imperialist hangover, unlike the Brits. We tend to treat people as we find them, and are pretty tolerant of others, especially when we are guests in their country.
Maybe thats why theres a Paddy running EK, and why they chose Paddys to set it up in the first place.