Yeah. It was stupid nonsense. The toddlers weren’t afraid of people who didn’t look like them (and certainly didn’t hate people who didn’t look like them) they were afraid of strangers. If, for instance, you have a little black kid who grows up as the adopted son of an Asian ...
Not so much the workfriends thing, but I’m an awkward, mouthy introvert with a small child (and soon, two small children), and I definitely get the experience of, ‘shit, the only people I’ve talked to outside of work in the past three weeks are my spouse ...