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Heh, yeah luckily I haven't had to do that, but I have chosen some obscene answers to them, and then later had to recite, and spell them out to a horrified Indi
by ecoffey 14y ago
Heh, yeah luckily I haven't had to do that, but I have chosen some obscene answers to them, and then later had to recite, and spell them out to a horrified Indian call center worker.
- namityadav 14y agoI see why you had to mention that the call center worker was "Indian". If you hadn't, your entire statement wouldn't have made any sense. Right?
- shard 14y agoWell, the implied ethnicity of the poster is non-Indian, so in addition to the embarrassment of having to spell out obscene words, there's the cultural gap as well. The poster can't judge how offended the call center worker was, and probably feels like he's poorly representing his culture. I've had many similar experiences, especially since I've been living in Korea recently, and it's very uncomfortable not knowing exactly how big of a faux pas you committed.
- ecoffey 14y agoYes I'm non-Indian, and that was just a way to indirectly reference my culture and language gap with him.
- namityadav 14y agoMakes sense. Thanks to both of you for taking the time to clarify.
- prodigal_erik 14y agoIndian culture is pretty uptight in certain ways, and knowing that would make me feel a lot more guilty about making them uncomfortable. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7871304.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7871304.stm
- ecoffey 14y agoWell he was, and that's part of the story. I wasn't passing judgement on him as a person, or stating that because of that one characteristic he was Evil. Edit: see my response to shard. No offense intended, and I hope none was taken :)