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> if instead of female CEOs we were talking Sri Lankan CEOs, we'd have long arrived at a cliché conclusion

I wasn't able to follow this sentence. What is the cliché with Sri Lankan CEOs? I'm not even sure I know of any. I had to look up Sri Lanka to find out that it is not part of India because initially I assumed you were trying to say something about the Indian CEOs we see in the valley.

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I think the idea is that our (American) culture doesn't have an 'immune system' that responds defensively and automatically to criticisms of Sri Lankan professionals in the way that is extended to some women today

I'm assuming it was a hypothetical. If several highly publicized Sri Lankan CEOs failed miserably - would people come to a conclusion about Sri Lankan CEO's being worse, and be less likely to support them in the future? The OP thinks people would take the pattern of Sri Lankan CEO's and extrapolate. Replace "Sri Lankan" with "Female" - and maybe this pattern will apply to future Women CEOs as well.

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