I talked to a techie from my computer's manufacturer today, presumably from a call ctr in India....

[marmar]

.... A really cordial and helpful guy, but a little hard to understand because of his thick accent. But I was very patient, we worked through it and solved my computer question perfectly. After the call ended, he says to me, "Thank You. You're the only person that's been nice to me this week." ....
So I asked him, "Why, what happened to you this week?".....
He paused, reluctant to answer, then told me the things people said to him: "Put an American on the phone, I can't understand what the hell you're saying"; "You (bleep) Indians are stealing all of our jobs"; "I hate talking to foreigners"; and that several people mocked him in a fake Indian accent. ......
THAT really bummed me out. Workers in India are not "stealing our jobs" - they're trying to do the best they can for their families. These slave-wage corporations have stolen the jobs, screwing people in this country and exploiting them elsewhere. But yet these good Americans turned all their rage on Indians making a fourth of what they would have for the same jobs.
Turn the hate and rage where it really belongs - on these multinationals and the politicians who enable them.
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