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While it might be true that everyone views the world through cultural glasses
those glasses are just descriptions of how we habitually respond to phenomena.

A meditation practice offers one how to start allowing incoming phenomena to freely arise, exist, & depart, past the habitual inclinations of our own identity constructs.
Each moment of meditation that are expressions of selflessness over baser levels of self fortification, then adds to a further dismantling of our human condition's programming interferences.

The degree that we allow our meditative interactions in life to be prioritized over interactions that are based on ego/identity programming, is the same degree that our cultural glasses can be cleared of their former viewing limitations.

@Jeroen said:
I vote as far left of centre as it’s possible to get, by the way. But immigrants are a mixed bag, some of them are hardworking and very nice, and some of them have criminal tendencies. Treat them individually and be as cautious as you would be with any unknown person and you won’t go far wrong.

I believe either now or in your past you were either an immigrant in America or are now an immigrant in the Netherlands.

People are a mixed bag. It is often useful to look at group dynamics in determining policy and there are often differences between one group and another, but there is usually a greater range of people within any group than there is a range of distinction between groups. Its important to always look at people as individuals and not put them in one box or another. Human disposition slides into tribalism very quickly.

Each child in the two participating classrooms — the control classroom & experimental classroom — was randomly assigned a blue or red t-shirt to wear daily as a “work shirt.” Teachers in the control classrooms did not mention the novel color groups. In contrast, teachers in the experimental classrooms made frequent use of the color groups to label children (e.g., “Good morning, Blues and Reds”).

After 4 weeks, children completed measures of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Children in the experimental classroom showed significantly higher levels of ingroup bias than children in the control condition, but even the control group showed inner group bias.

Children stated that if a new child would enter the classroom, they’d choose their group. Children in the experimental classroom rated their group membership as more important than children in the control classroom. And, children in the experimental classroom rated themselves as significantly happier.

https://randallgibson.medium.com/what-can-we-learn-from-racism-of-childrens-red-and-blue-t-shirts-482ac3147959

@Jeroen said:
I vote as far left of centre as it’s possible to get, by the way. But immigrants are a mixed bag, some of them are hardworking and very nice, and some of them have criminal tendencies. Treat them individually and be as cautious as you would be with any unknown person and you won’t go far wrong.

This can also be said when it comes to immigrants who have to interact/deal with the locals...
"The locals are a mixed bag"
"Some of them (the locals) are hardworking and very nice, and some of them (the locals) have criminal tendencies.
"Treat them individually and be as cautious as you would be with any unknown person and you won’t go far wrong." ....

This sort of thing has been on my mind the past several years in relation to the rise of the internet. We're of the age where we remember pre internet days. There was one sort of feeling that it will help bring us closer, now we'll be able to talk to people we never really had the opportunity to before. I think in many ways the outcome has been the opposite.

The internet allowed people to connect in ways over similar interests that wasn't possible before, this site being a good example of that. More so for people with more marginal and ostracized interests and identities. On the one hand, this has actually been a great improvement, on the other we less and less have to interact with people outside of our bubbles. Those cross cultural skills atrophy and we feel less of a need to build bridges, we have our people already. As opposed to travel where we meet with differing "tribes" face to face, online those innate interpersonal skills that unite us all are lacking.

At any rate, I'm far from having any answers or solid position. It just feels as though there is way more cross cultural strife these days and the internet seems to be a big source of that.

I'd say that I think doing one's best to remain open and curious about others and the world around you helps. I'd also say look beyond just ethnicities, being curious about what people are like who hang out at the beach playing volleyball vs what the people are like who spend their evenings at the veteran's hall vs the local food shelf, etc.

Entering the world of online TTRPG's the past few years has been a growth experience for myself in this regard. On the one hand everyone shares a common nerdy interest, on the other I game with a broad range of people, a couple of army grunts in one group, a shy German guy, a male grade school teacher, a grandpa from Atlanta, a young black guy from Indiana who likes to cosplay at nerd Conventions and party, an Arab trans woman from rural NY and recently a female teacher from Puerto Rico.

I found this old Ted Talk interesting...
Everyone sees the world through cultural glasses

Over the years I've had the good fortune to be in a position to travel to many parts of the world ...This Ted talk reminded me of how travel and interacting with the locals can enrich one's life and the lives of others....being in the position to experience cultural differences firsthand...

I should point out that one does not need to travel great distances to experience this...one just needs to take an interest in the different ethnic groups who live in your country...

All too often I've heard (in somewhat negative tones) things like "They are not like us"..."They have no respect for......." and so on...For the most part, the people saying these things more often than not know very little or perhaps nothing about the other people's cultural and traditional differences...