02-10-2004, 08:08 PM
I think the Indian English media has a large part to play in the 'BPO backlash'. The Economic Times website has done nothing for the last couple of months but sensationalize all the newsreports relating to the issue.
There is a growing discontent in the United States about the very very skewed trade balance with China. What did China do? it acted by buying $2 Billion worth of Boeing jets and made other trade concessions. Of course the media was clipped to not report too much, if at all, on the issue.
While not drawing comparisions, the Indian English media has done nothing constructive in the whole issue. The idea is to find ways to minimize the discontent it, and not give it lots of airtime.
The Economic Times for example has all these news stories peppered with all the expletives that some american people use for Indians. Do we need to know that? If we do, how many times?
As for the IT jobs that India is gaining, we have nothing to feel afraid or ashamed of it. We have deserved it with our hard work and efforts. The US wants globalization, hell yeah we will give them globalization.
Globalization does not only mean that American MNC's will spread out and buy businesses worldwide and kill local industry. It is not a one way street, as the American Foreign policy would like to believe. And it is more true in this century when the 'third world' seems to be making a resurgance.
And now that the developing world is standing up in the arena, the American industry start whining.
blah...the hypocrisy.
There is a growing discontent in the United States about the very very skewed trade balance with China. What did China do? it acted by buying $2 Billion worth of Boeing jets and made other trade concessions. Of course the media was clipped to not report too much, if at all, on the issue.
While not drawing comparisions, the Indian English media has done nothing constructive in the whole issue. The idea is to find ways to minimize the discontent it, and not give it lots of airtime.
The Economic Times for example has all these news stories peppered with all the expletives that some american people use for Indians. Do we need to know that? If we do, how many times?
As for the IT jobs that India is gaining, we have nothing to feel afraid or ashamed of it. We have deserved it with our hard work and efforts. The US wants globalization, hell yeah we will give them globalization.
Globalization does not only mean that American MNC's will spread out and buy businesses worldwide and kill local industry. It is not a one way street, as the American Foreign policy would like to believe. And it is more true in this century when the 'third world' seems to be making a resurgance.
And now that the developing world is standing up in the arena, the American industry start whining.
blah...the hypocrisy.