Comments on: A Third Serving of Caste

By: afghairena

afghairena — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:05:04 +0000

Stupid idiot who wrote it. doesn’t make any sense at all. racist.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:50:26 +0000

Of course in typical hollywood fashion she falls for the white dude and ditches Ramamurthy.

I kept reading the summary of the film and thinking "She must be the blind one, right?"

By: Shodan

Shodan — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:54:50 +0000

Interesting. Link 1. Link 2.

By: Tamil

Tamil — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:39:37 +0000

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2007/05/21/caste_of_mind.html

Metro Now, Delhi’s tabloid, today has a front-page story about how in the country’s top medical school lower-caste students have been shunted into hostels away from the higher-caste medics.

“Fuck off or we will throw you out of the hostel in ten days” was the charming note slipped under the door of one low caste student’s door.

In rural India the situation is worst. Dalits are killed for daring to fall in love with someone from a higher caste. Countryside schools have segregated classrooms. Just to complicate things in villages it is muscle from just one rung up the caste ladder that perpetuates most violence on dalits.

Maybe the (white?) cartoonist has a better idea of indians than you ABCD brats?

By: varun

varun — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:35:15 +0000

High IQ link to being vegetarian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6180753.stm

By: PG

PG — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:04:00 +0000

"Indian offices have taken measures to thwart such attacks: Agents typically adopt anglicized names, undergo "accent neutralization" and U.S. cultural training, and sometimes claim to be located in the United States. They are taught to suffer attacks politely and try to calm customers. Failing that, many offices now offer callers the option to be transferred to agents in the United States. These humiliations, say observers, are tolerated by a labor force that savors the opportunity to join India's growing middle class. With monthly incomes of about $200, call-center employees live well in a country where many are poverty-stricken.

The fact is that the accents and fast paced speech of these call-center workers is very difficult for most Americans to understand. Right now I'm watching a documentary on Akrit Jaswal and they have subtitles for him --- he's speaking English.

Those accent neutralization courses just take off the hardest edge, that's it. Especially older people in America have a really, really, really difficult time understanding these call-center folks. That makes them frustrated and makes them wonder why these "American" companies are not employing people who can be understood.

By: vivek

vivek — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:51:19 +0000

substitute derogatory epithet of choice for “macaca”

By: vivek

vivek — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:48:43 +0000

This cartoon sucks. Yet another example of searching for something messed up in some far corner of the world and flogging it in order to feel better about oneself. The response from whomever the man is talking to could easily be:

"That's nice... did you already give that little macaca money for the pizza or should I pay him?"

By: Nanda Kishore

Nanda Kishore — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:29:52 +0000

Obviously a lot of customers also giving vent to frustration at customer service levels in general and of course intrusive marketing calls. It’s funny that the do-not-call registry was announced with such fanfare, should have been the other way around (people shouldn’t have had to add their numbers to any list unless they wanted to be called).

By: Nanda Kishore

Nanda Kishore — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:24:30 +0000

"They feel like it is their duty" to swallow insults...

Insults never hurt anybody, they just expose people who have no power to change anything and indulge in that kind of nonsense. It's not about "swallowing" insults, it's about being wise in a given situation.