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| Sex? Drugs? Of Course....it's an Indian Call Center! |
| 2006-03-20 |
| Buy a Dell computer and turn a nice young Indian into a pot smoking pervert? I guess globalization is worse than we thought. Recent polls of Indians working in call centers for British and American companies found that they are adopting the values of Hollywood movies and British TV. Two recent surveys found many staffers admitting to casual affairs, The Times of London reported. In one poll, one in four admitted to casual sex -- and in the other, one in five said they had had an affair with a colleague. Shankar Rao, deputy commissioner of the New Delhi Police, suggested that the call centers provide counseling to keep staffers off drugs and sex and that they should make sure no one works more than three nights a week. Wouldn't that give them more time to hook up? "The companies should insist on certain standards," Rao said. "I want to make sure these call centers do not become dens of evil." I'm surprised they didn't just try to profit off of it instead. Y'know...press 1 for a Hindi Hottie, press 2 for a Bengali Babe... |
| Posted by:Desert Blondie |
| #14 DB: How they can believe that while being surrounded by a sea of humanity is something I'll leave for an anthropologist to explain.... Actually, it's pretty simple. Sex without contraceptives leads to children. Lots of them, even if the sex occurs once a year. Westerners have a lot of sex. But we also use a lot of contraceptives. Why are there so many Indians? Because India is the size of the Western Europe, but has been a civilization for 5,000 years - meaning it has had access to relatively advanced agricultural methods and been able to sustain large populations for that time. Another reason is that Indians, being conservative about sex, aren't real educated about contraceptives, oral or otherwise. I think there's a misperception among Indians that Westerners are alley cats, due to some of the things they see on American television programs and Hollywood movies. They think Westerners see adultery and promiscuity as a positive good, when the reality is, of course, that we expect our significant others to behave themselves and have zero toleration for misbehavior. In the realm of sexual fidelity, Indian values are Western values. What they perceive as Western values is actually the use of sexual themes to bump up TV ratings and movie box office. (Do Indians believe everything they see on TV? Evidently they do - at least the salacious bits). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-03-20 23:36 |
| #13 Cyber Sarge, it might be a cultural thing. Really. A good Bengali friend of mine tried to make that same argument ("Indians don't have sex...they are very shy."). I told him that I called bullshit on that, and he angrily demanded to know why. When I told him "Come on, there's a billion Indians. How the hell did they all get there??", he sheepishly admitted that I had a point. If he could have blushed, I'm sure he would have right then. He is from the middle class, and they don't tend to have large families (just like the west). Add in the relatively tame "love scenes" in Indian movies, and they think of themselves as rather reserved sexually. Hence the big shock about what's mentioned in the article. How they can believe that while being surrounded by a sea of humanity is something I'll leave for an anthropologist to explain.... |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-03-20 21:23 |
| #12 Maybe it will provide enough plotline for season 5 of "The Office" |
| Posted by: capsu78 2006-03-20 17:03 |
| #11 you know that must weigh alot - 1.2 billion in such a small area. say 120 billion times an average of i dunno say 6 stone thats alot of weight , i dont do mathes (or english) but surly it must put a hefty weight on the earth to hold??? |
| Posted by: ShepUK 2006-03-20 16:32 |
| #10 So where is the story? Weren't the Indian boinking long before western culture showed up? If you answer "no" explain 1.2 Billion Indians. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-03-20 12:40 |
| #9 Two recent surveys found many staffers admitting to casual affairs, The Times of London reported. In one poll, one in four admitted to casual sex -- and in the other, one in five said they had had an affair with a colleague. So is the story that contact with America leads them to admit to more stuff than they did before? Let the truth set you free baby. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-03-20 12:01 |
| #8 There's a Bollywood potboiler just waiting to be made about this. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-03-20 11:52 |
| #7 ROFL, ed! |
| Posted by: Spugum Sherens5365 2006-03-20 11:04 |
| #6 Dell's helpline is now a 1-900 number. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-03-20 11:00 |
| #5 Please stay on the line. Your call is important to us. Your call is being directing to the first available agent. Your call will be taken in priority sequence right after someone finds a box of tissues. Thank you and have a nice day. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-20 10:38 |
| #4 Are they hiring? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-03-20 10:34 |
| #3 Buy a Dell computer and turn a nice young Indian into a pot smoking pervert? I guess globalization is worse than we thought. Worse? |
| Posted by: 6 2006-03-20 10:14 |
| #2 huh - how i know why whenever i phone anything in this country i end up talking to some seemingly smacked up or just mumbling and occassionally giggling! but remember like every problem in this modern world it is the wests fault! |
| Posted by: ShepUK 2006-03-20 09:43 |
| #1 And what's different about a call center than any other office job? Oh, that's right, you can blame anything that happens there on the evil Westerners who foisted these evil jobs on India. Good grief. This can't be taken seriously by anyone - other than a Blame Specialist, lol. After having a cab driver in Bombay try to sell me his "daughter" for the night and being propositioned by the hotel maid every day I was there, I'd say this is definitely a bit overwrought. Call me a Western hottie, cool to the game. |
| Posted by: Spugum Sherens5365 2006-03-20 09:37 |