OT: Off shore call center workers mad at American

[Iron Giant]

I've had my share of India calls, mostly to Veritas. I've mostly had good experiences with them, though I love to use vernacular (sp?) expressions with them.

After being on the phone with one guy for an hour fixing a huge issue, I told him I had to "go see a man about a horse". LOL. "you have to go and see a horse?" hehehe.

There was this one Indian woman with a beautiful speaking voice and a very sweet Indian name too and I showed her my website while she had taken remote control of the Server I was on and we were waiting for some download to complete.

I actually feel really bad when I hear that someone has changed their name so its more "american". Does everyone need to be named Bob to do business? Sheesh, some chinese friends of ours introduce themselves as Peggy or Betty. I think Pai'yan (sp) sounds so nice and can't hold a candle to Peggy. Makes me ashamed to be an American to think some people would change their very name to be more "like us".

otoh, if you move from country A to country B, its pretty arrogant to refuse to learn country B's language. That applies to Americans moving abroad and anyone moving to the USA too, jm .02