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Thanks Kimberly! “While irate calls are a mainstay of customer service work in any country, many Indian call-center workers say they regularly face particular abuse from Americans, whose tantrums are sometimes racist and often inspired by anger over outso
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Thanks daddyinastrangeland! “Parents of four teenaged girls who were suspended from school for dressing alike are suggesting the motive was racial. The girls were suspended for four days after school officials incorrectly branded them as gang members…”
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Thanks Phil C! “It does not take a familiarity with “Madame Butterfly” to know that white men have lost their hearts to Asian women in earlier generations, but it is undeniably more frequent in our newly globalized world…”
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Thanks mk! New York University will host the “Reel China Biennial Documentary Festival,” Sept. 29-30 and Oct. 7, which will include the screening of films on topics ranging from disability, unemployment, and gay and lesbian lives to the examination ch
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Thanks kimajor! “Navneet Virdee…of Indian decent, said Feldhun called her a terrorist when she challenged the veracity of a diversity program…Virdee said Feldhun encouraged students to chant racial slurs at each other as a way to lessen the words’ i
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
eliaday wrote:
read the comments on the blogging baby piece on the students were suspended for wearing the same outfit. it’s almost more interesting than the story itself….
teachable moment anyone?
Posted 02 Oct 2006 at 7:43 am ¶
nonwhiteperson wrote:
Many Indian call-center workers say they regularly face particular abuse from Americans, whose tantrums are sometimes racist and often inspired by anger over outsourcing…An anti-outsourcing movement has drawn wide support as layoffs continue to mount at such U.S. companies as IBM, which is cutting 13,000 jobs in Europe and the United States and adding 14,000 in India, according to the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers.
Those who are angry at outsourcing should blame their own government’s trade policies and corporations.
Posted 02 Oct 2006 at 1:12 pm ¶
nonwhiteperson wrote:
Oh I forgot, Americans don’t think.
Posted 02 Oct 2006 at 1:15 pm ¶