From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 12:15:37 MST
From: Chris Russo <extropy@russo.org>
>I could spend days detailing my experiences there and those of my
>coworkers, but suffice it to say that India's problems aren't some
>big magical mystery. They're not just the fault of their
>government or their large population or the evil Western World.
>It's a failure of the individuals of their society who embrace a
>culture of ignorance, corruption, and getting the "other guy" to
>do their work for them.
Thanks for writing this, nothing like first hand observations.
It should be noted that this is not a specific problem to India,
this behavior occurs even in this country (America), visit a
housing project if you don't believe me.
We (SBC/Ameritech) have a large software operation in India linked
to my building by satelite. We also have a constantly rotating
cadre of software people from there working here in my building. A
large number of these people are women. They are all excellent at
what they do.
It's a matter of work ethic.
Brian
Member:
Extropy Institute, www.extropy.org
Adler Planetarium www.adlerplanetarium.org
Life Extension Foundation, www.lef.org
National Rifle Association, www.nra.org, 1.800.672.3888
Ameritech Data Center Chicago, IL, Local 134 I.B.E.W
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:05:28 MST