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I'm not sure that "English" deserves to be written off as a joke. I was born in England and have had to work at developing a "mid-Atlantic" English accent to m

I'm not sure that "English" deserves to be written off as a joke. I was born in England and have had to work at developing a "mid-Atlantic" English accent to make it easier for Americans to understand me on the phone. One of my colleagues who grew up in Chennai says that learning how to speak with an American accent has won him a lot of contracts over competing outsourcing firms. If you are selling something then making it as easy as possible to buy from you is a good idea.

MichaelGG 11y ago
This is really important. From personal experience, there's a lot of bias. Some racism, but a lot of people having bad experiences with "Indians", due to shitty outsourcing. It must suck to get written off because of this superficial bias. I'm guessing more money goes to contractors that happen to be in India vs Indian contractors. (I've lived in a country with a bad rep for a long time, and I make sure I'm not introduced as Michael from <place> - a lot of people are attracted to mentioning it if you're not local, it seems.)