And you thought YOUR job sucked

National Geographic Magazine | May, 2003

[martin_fierro]

From this month's National Geographic Magazine article on the Indian caste system.

Your job don't suck.

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[Blueflag]

Being suspicious, I see this guy as nicely shaven, recent haircut, and reasonably well-fed.

Not like the lowest caste members I have seen.

Engineering the news possibility?

[rageaholic]

The INS loves to import people from places like this. They take their attitudes and their low standards of living with them.

[MeSpikeLibs]

Yeah and I am surprised the WWP hasn't come over and organized them. They could be the United Poo Workers.

[ChuteTheMall GawdSortaMount]

We could use some cheaper non-union plumbers here.

[ArcLight]

This ain't funny. People in India really have to live like that. I'll never forget walking through the Bombay jewelry district and seeing people dipping their hands in the open sewers. I asked why, and the guy I'd paid to act as a guide told me they were looking for tiny scraps of gold from the jewelers' shops--it was all they had to live on.

When you see that kind of poverty up close, you don't feel like joking about it. I grew up black and "poor" in America. But ever since going to India and Africa, I put "poor" in quotes. I now know that I've never been poor in my life. Not even close. On the other hand, there are places in the world where people live lives of such stunning poverty we Americans can't even comprehend it.

God bless and help them.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Funny, but the humor can also teach us a lesson about supposedly "enlightened" societies the liberals love to exalt.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Ping, I posted before I read your post.

[asformeandformyhouse]

The picture looks faked to me.

[martin_fierro]

No, it's just my cheap old scanner. The photo itself looks realistic.

[martin_fierro]

This ain't funny.

My point exactly.

[Mears]

India? Isn't this the country that is taking many of our high tech jobs?

Why would we even do business with a country that allows such poverty?

[ErnBatavia]

The picture looks faked to me.

Me too...that's really Mansour, the FOX "expert" on how we've always got Osama cornered.

[stilts]

Hard for me to see this in the humor section. After having been to Calcutta it is difficult to find humor in poverty and discrimination. I would agree that it puts our petty complaints about ornery bosses or "dead end jobs" in a proper perspective.

[stilts]

I don't agree that the picture looks fake as the lower caste members often do not resemble "our" homeless. They often work with personal pride with the rub being they only get the worst jobs.