At work we sit in rows in an open plan format. There are no cubicles, just long desk that seat 6 people each in front of a few computer screens and with phone boards and a small chest of drawers seperating each pair. This makes for little privacy but a social and interesting work environment, full of lively discussion. Either by co-incidence or design, all the gweilos sit in one particular row, known as the Gweilo Ghetto. There are a couple of others at a distant desk, but otherwise we're all nicely contained within one row. It tends to be the loudest and most boisterous area of the room (there are a total of 7 rows in the room).

I just don't know who's protecting whom and from what.