I wonder if maybe you're not being taken the right way in this thread. I've personally had a few experiences with professors, both in undergrad and grad school

I wonder if maybe you're not being taken the right way in this thread. I've personally had a few experiences with professors, both in undergrad and grad school, in which I found them hard to understand because of their accents. Rather than dropping the class and complaining about that "foreign professor," I stuck it out and spent significant effort into trying to parse their language, because I knew there were a significant number of things I could learn from these people. What's more, they were actually people to me; I physically interacted with them multiple times a week, every week for a semester or more. If I were cold called by some random recruiter with a thick accent with whom I had no previous relationship, I can't say as I'd put the same amount of effort into trying to understand them. They aren't people I interact with on a near daily basis, and they probably don't have anything interesting to offer me, so I tend toward feeling it's not worth the effort to try and force my brain to hear the message through the accent. Although the Indian call center recruiter is a common stereotype, the thing is, I'd apply the same sort of logic with any accent, in just about any situation I can think of. That is, if the interaction is potentially significant, I'm inclined to expend effort. If they're people I'll be interacting with frequently, I'm also inclined to spend the effort. I've encountered Indian people I couldn't easily understand. I've also encountered Chinese, American, European, and South American people I had difficulty understanding. In each case, I applied the same logic to determine whether I would expend brainpower on understanding their literal words to get at what they were saying. Is this closer to what you meant to say?