>Ten years ago, so many Americans were making jokes about poor quality Indian code and Indian accents It's hard to not fall into this trap in certain fields of

>Ten years ago, so many Americans were making jokes about poor quality Indian code and Indian accents It's hard to not fall into this trap in certain fields of IT. To the point it's almost not regarded as racist Though as a Systems Admin, outsourcing is considered more of a joke than anything. The lowest bidding contractor wins, and the people they hire are absolutely abysmal. If contracting companies did the same thing, but hiring a 100% "American workforce" (or British/Australia/etc), and they did an equally mediocre job, I'd suspect the derision would shift accordingly There's a lot of smart Indian people. They're no "better" or "worse" than the rest of us. They're just a larger sample size that get tarred with that brush