I have been visiting freerepublic for the past week. Few days back, some of the folks here wanted to ban Pepsi because it was headed by an Indian hindu woman...and now this ?
The reality of globalisation is, technology makes geography redundant, any work that can be done on a computer in US, can as well be done in India. And no, contrary to popular perception, I dont think an avg. American worker is somehow innately superior to an avg. Indian worker when it comes to writing C++ programs.
Some people have difficulty in accepting the fact the people are basically the same all over. There is this subconscious racism that leads an American like the the poster of this thread to get upset over outsourcing to India, but not to Ireland or Israel.
Because of technology and globalisation, we have for the first time in history a situation where hundreds of millions of Indian and Chinese workers and so on, now find themselves a part of the same labor pool as the US worker.
This is the reality. You may hate it, but thats just the way it is. The choice therefore is either to shout yourself hoarse for eternity hurling abuse at those damn Indians, or adapting yourself to the change...because the only thing permanent, is change.
Those who take advantage of the 'change' , prosper, those who waste their time complaing and crying, get chucked out.
Excuse me? Where's your proof of that? Nothing in what the poster wrote can be construed to be subconcious racism. He may not like Indians (based on personal experience) but it is a real stretch to accuse somebody you don't know of subconcious racism based on a single post.
This smacks of what Julian Bond does by constantly referring to "white supremacy."
Nobody here has any problems with Hindus or women. What we do have a problem with is someone who thinks the USA is a existential offense to the rest of the planet running a major American company.