Gerard,

Condescending, to some degree, yes - but this basically arises out of mis-information rather than anything else.

To even assume that our people can not read and / or understand English is ludicrous to put it mildly. They may not speak it with an American twang, or may not speak it grammatically correct in all respects but they can read it and understand it. They can not get through college studying from text books in english, including the most complex technical & engineering manuscripts merely by doing character mapping or whatever terminology you care to use.

However, I do not agree with the contention that foreign workers and global trade take away american jobs. It's mainly technology that does.There is an American Economist, Dr. Charles Wheelan, who wrote an article on this earlier this year. It's worth a read. He seems to have his finger on the the pulse. You can see it at:

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/economist/1332

On a more condescending note, he also later wrote on India :

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/economist/2074

Regards,

Jaspal Dugal  

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:04:09 +1000, Gerard J. Nicol wrote:
> Oh what a condescending thread this has been.
>
> How amazing it is that a computer can "learn" to interpret English
> but it is inconceivable that a human being would not be able to do
> the same.
>
> What is a crummy data entry job in our economy, attracting at best
> an employee that is semi-literate would probably attract somebody
> with a degree in India, Philippines, China et al.
>
> The net risk of identity theft is exactly the same irrespective of
> where you have your data processed. Human ability and nature is
> common throughout our species.
>
> Of course if you want to object to outsourcing on the grounds that
> it puts people out of work in your country and that this will
> inevitably rebound on you personally then this is a valid albeit
> self serving concern.
>
> Gerard
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