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Can a US-ian consider moving to India in search of work? Can they enter and work if they already have a position lined up? This was easy coming to Canada, but
by jleyank 18y ago
Can a US-ian consider moving to India in search of work? Can they enter and work if they already have a position lined up? This was easy coming to Canada, but there's all sorts of treaty arrangements between the US and Canada. If the Indians are protective of their job market, US-ians just won't be able to go unless they're entrepreneurs who'll create Indian jobs for natives?
- dreamz 18y agoamericans won't be able to adjust to the indian system (corruption, pollution, high ego etc.), also they would have terrible US accent :) and finally "Emily" from US won't become "Chameli" in India :-)
- wheels 18y agoThere are a whole lot of folks living in the US or Canada that are Indian citizens or one generation removed. That said, the article is kind of lame. It assumes that a growing economy translates directly to a skilled labor shortage without making any decent case for that. Really, it's only even in passing that they make a case for moving there.
- mauricio 18y agoUS-ians are typically referred to as Americans...
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- andresmh 18y agoAmerica is a continent :)
- Devilboy 18y agoTwo continents even!
- furyg3 18y agoThankfully we snatched up the "American" TLD early on.
- wheels 18y agoThis has somehow become a cause célèbre for native Spanish speakers, but it's simply not accurate. The correct translation from the English "American" (or German "Amerikaner") to Spanish is "estadounidense", not "americano". This would be like English speakers correcting Spanish speakers for using "pretender" and not meaning "a faker". As for the continents themselves, it just depends on who's doing the teaching. English speaking countries define North and South America as separate continents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents
- davidw 18y agoInteresting. Italian has 'americano', which is sort of the common way of putting things, even if not entirely correct. 'statiunitense', similar to the spanish word you cite, is the more formal term. It is however, an unwieldy word that's mostly limited to news or official things, and 'americano' is what I am to most people here.
- wheels 18y agoThe more informal Spanish version would be "norteamericano", which also packs some odd ambiguities, since it is mostly a reference to people from the US. The bit I was digging into there, by inference (not necessarily clear for those not familiar with Spanish) is that because North and South America are taught to be one continent in Spanish, and "americano" references the peoples from that aggregate, Spanish speakers (mostly Latin-Americans) have a habit of correcting English speakers in online forms when they use the word "American" to refer to people from the US.
- plinkplonk 18y ago"Can a US-ian consider moving to India in search of work?" I know many people from the USA who work here in Bangalore for a year or two and then go back to the USA. As I understand it the paperwork for the work visa is a little tedious, but hey then getting an H! involves a lot of paperwork too. Ideally you get a job first and let the company take care of the paperwork for you.