DIANA writes:

The chief institutional muscle behind the destruction of traditional values in the world today, as we know it, is the United States of America. See this piece in The Economist about IBM’s explicit favoritism for homosexual job applicants in South Korea, a country with an ingrained aversion to open homosexuality.  Lady Liberty’s face has been replaced by the unlovely visage of Holly Graf.  The Economist reports:

IN LATE September, the South Korean arm of IBM, an American computing multinational, put out an advertisement soliciting applicants for a round of job vacancies. The text was standard fare in every aspect except one: sexual minorities—gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people—were to be given “extra points” in the screening process, according to Asia Kyeongjae, a South Korean financial newspaper.

Such a policy might raise eyebrows in many places. But South Korea is a country where, in a poll by the Pew Research Center just four years ago, 77% of people agreed that “homosexuality should be rejected”. The combination of the country’s Confucianism (which holds marriage and childbirth as an obligation) and the power of its conservative Protestant lobby have long made South Korea a hard place to be gay.

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A reader writes:

IBM appointed its first female CEO last year.

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