Outsourcing is good

Just ahead of Obama's visit, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao explains India's views on outsourcing and talks about some of the deals the two countries could strike.

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• obama's visit
• outsourcing

[SnowShael]

I think any politician who stood up and said "We are going to exterminate outsourcing and ask businesses here what they need to prosper compared to al others" will win 2012. I know too many people who would work any of those exported service or factory jobs for even minimum wage and do a superb job at it.

[caraboochild1]

are you crazy? I gotta feed my family. Si this is bull...

[TheRamenAvenger]

@StatueTuning I agree, people who live in the stone age and think arranged marriage is the way to go are pretty hopeless.

[StatueTuning]

@TheRamenAvenger Again, arrogance and insults. There is no point in trying to explain complex realities to people being willfully close-minded.

[TheRamenAvenger]

@StatueTuning It's of the stone age. People should have free will. Arranged marriages aren't free will. Casual sex is free will. People should be free. I don't care if you disapprove of what I choose to do with my freedoms. That's a fundamental American attitude and if you don't like it tough shit.

You of course have the freedom to do what mommy tells you. It's very civilized to do what you're told and obey tradition and authority. I'm sure it will be safer that way. Enjoy!

[StatueTuning]

@TheRamenAvenger That's a very knee-jerk reaction to something of a different culture - there are clear benefits and drawbacks to arranged marriages, and they are no less civilized than other forms of marriage. I'm not telling you to go get one, but the idea that it's somehow "of the stone age" is quite arrogant. In the "Stone Age," it is thought people tended to have sex with lots of people without marriage, and that's more descriptive of Europe/US than India, for all that's worth.

[TheRamenAvenger]

@StatueTuning Yeah that's great, let's redefine ourselves back into the stone age. Progress!

[StatueTuning]

@TheRamenAvenger People were choosing their own partners before civilzation. Arranged marriages are a development of particular civilizations to maintain continuity in family life. Indian families have closer ties and more stability than those of the West - but it comes at the cost of individual choice.

My concern is that you're trying to make the American character static. We are constantly redefining what America is, and who knows, maybe someday people will adopt a different family model?

[TheRamenAvenger]

@StatueTuning You can have arranged marriages in the USA, but it's not an American thing to do. It's an Indian thing to do. It's not an American ideal. We'd like to go forward in our thinking, not back to the stone ages where people negotiated with their children as tender.

[StatueTuning]

@knoose Logic is overrated, haven't you heard?

[StatueTuning]

@TheRamenAvenger Perhaps that is the case, but you can't just declare so without investigation? What is it about the "American tradition" that necessarily excludes arranged marriage?