Political, not racial. Unless, someone is anti-American.
legion said:
Wow! Racist and blame-shifting/Apple-apologist. You're making some great karma inroads.
haiggy said:
That was pretty racist... wow...
POLITICAL but probably not "racist".
Politically and sometimes personally, Americans have recently gotten very
irritated with American companies who have out-sourced Customer Services, Customer Relations, and Technical Assistance to non-American (foreign) companies instead of
hiring & training unemployed Americans to do the work. Some corporate Executives and even some State & Local govenment officials have lost their jobs or have been dealt with harshly when the public has complained about out-sourcing.
When I couldn't figure out how to
master/slave a couple of Western Digital 100GB hard drives I was very pleased with being able to contact the company at night on a weekend with their 24/7 service. Although I did have some trouble understanding his "foreign" accent, the Indian tech knew exactly what he was talking about and solved my problemS in a matter of seconds. Was I pleased with the Service, YES - it was A+ and I was tickled pink. Was I irritated with the out-sourcing of American jobs, only a little...mostly because Western Digital probably doesn't manufacturer a thing in the US. Probably made in Thailand, Taiwan, or the New Territories on mainland China, off Hong Kong and Kowloon.
In contrast, I use to get irritated with my mortgage company because any time I wanted to discuss my payment status and get some help with the Escrow Account, I was talking with someone halfway around the globe and despite both of us speaking English, there was very much a LANGUAGE BARRIER that created a lack of real understanding. It got so bad after one year of out-sourcing that my mortgage company cancelled the foreign contract. Now we get to talk to Americans in Detroit whose understanding of American-English sometimes is even more challenged. Go figure.
Out-sourcing has become extremely common and the backlash so harsh that Customer Service people are often deathly afraid to admit they are even located in Canada, which to most Americans is like being the eastern part of Alaska, or just North of New York, and thus almost part of the "States", though we clearly understand Canada is a sovereign country. Regardless, many Americans are fed up with out-sourcing for
political and for language barrier problems. It's a fact. Deal with it. There is nothing Anti-x about it, the political position is pro-American labor.
Decades ago the Japanese realized that Americans wanted to buy cars "made in America" so they got smart and built plants all over the United States, hiring American labor. That stopped most of the criticism - how can you "hate a Nissan automobile" made in Tennessee. We also realize that if we buy a car built in Stuttgart, Germany, the labor is heavily Turkish so it really isn't "German made" just German engineered in Germany.
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In Arizona, there are so many illegal Mexican nationals doing hard labor jobs which many Americans refuse to do for any wage, that Spanish has become our second language. Thankfully, most of us studied Español in high school or we'd be at a loss to find a bathroom in a restaurant without asking ¿Dónde es el baño sitio? or more likely ¿Dónde esta el quarto del baño, por favor?...pronto, pronto!
Racist? hardly. Our world is shrinking everyday - I bought a Japanese hard drive from an American dealer in California (now that's really foreign
) and was a little surprised to find a sticker on it saying "assembled in Vietnam". Now that's a real "wow". Last time I was there it was 1969 and there wasn't much manufacturing or assembling of computer parts going on.
American companies doing business with Japanese companies who do business with Vietnamese. Now that's cool.
But American companies
laying off American labor to "down size" the company and save money, who then out-source those jobs to India or even to Canada, that's politically incorrect in America. Not racist, but political.
So, if you want to hit him with a slur of some sort, make it politically oriented instead of racial. But be careful, he may be a French-Canadian who has immigrated to the US and is working for Wal-mart and living in an Italian neighborhood only 66 miles from where he was born.
The Indian government has for many years been subsidizing technical schooling for their citizens so they can become world-class experts in computers and compete with people all over the globe. The Indian government had to know that someday their political policy was going to impact people in other countries...and it has. There is natural resentment towards Indians who take other national's jobs. This is an international problem.
Beyond out-sourcing, American electronics corporations have been hiring Indian Experts, paying them far less wages in place of Americans, and that has also become a real sore point in my state. But, it is also a reality. That's why some of my Canadian and Scottish engineer friends are moving home, their jobs have been taken by Indians. These engineers don't have any choice.
Americans do have a political choice, and the war is on against any American company that out-sources labor and American jobs to citizens of a foreign country. Americans like foreign citizens of all races, but not Americans who give domestic jobs to foreigners instead of to fellow Americans. Guess maybe that is "nationalistic". Is it okay to be pro-American?
