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India Will Need to Recruit 120,000 Foreigners
indi_jobs writes "After all the noise about jobs moving from Europe and USA to India, ZDNet India is reporting that 'India faces a massive shortage of workers with European language skills over the next five years which could see the country needing to recruit up to 120,000 foreigners...' Looks like the jobs may be moving to India but they might require the original people to do some of the jobs!" From the article: "Evalueserve said the ramping up of non-English speaking capability by the Indian offshore firms is an attempt to capture a larger share of the continental European outsourcing market, and reduce the country's high-risk exposure of more than 80 per cent of business coming from the UK and the U.S. economies."
I certainly had no intention of insulting anyone's religious beliefs in the use of the word "karma".
I do think that I have a rather basic understanding of the word, however, when used in its religious context. IMHO, karma is both cause and effect, both yin and yang, and circles within circles. Its manifestations cross cycles of life, but also exist within a single lifetime. Karma is the great force of equilibrium.
You mean American farmers, right? Because the USA and Europe protect farmers in countries that aren't really adequate for farming. Why plant sugarcane in Louisiana, oranges in Florida, or coffe in Hawaii, when the best place for those is in the state of São Paulo in Brazil?
And it isnt'only farming, obsolete industries in the "rust belt" also get subsidies. Brazilian steel exports must face heavy tariffs and non-tariff barriers in exporting to the USA.
So, look at the long term consequences. The Brazilian real has a lower than normal exchange rate against the US dollar. This means that Brazilian agriculture and steel companies can compete in the USA.
OTOH, high technology companies in Brazil get an extra boost in their exports. With a favorable exchange rate and not having to face high barriers in exporting, the Brazilian aviation industry is able to compete very favorably against the American general aviation industry.
By protecting farmers and old steel mills you are keeping those low-paying jobs in the USA and exporting sophisticated technological jobs to the third world. Now, what exactly is sanity and what is greed?
I have found that there are many admirable traits to be found within "eastern" religions. The only aspect of Hinduism that I find to be particularly negative is the rigid caste system it engenders. If the cross-pollination of religions between east and west had been more vigorous since Alexander, the European "Age of Enlightenment" might never have occurred.
I am in your debt.
It was part of my understanding that karma represented (in simplified western terms) "that what comes around, goes around". Meaning that proper and honorable actions would be rewarded in this or some subsequent lifetime: likewise as a punishment for improper and dishonorable actions.
Your description would seem to deny any attribution of the Hindu religion as a basis for the enforcement of the rigid caste system, which would make it more of a cultural issue not so unlike the western adoption of slavery (after a fashion). Slavery in the West found no validation in the Christian religion, although verses were sometimes misquoted in attempts to justify it.
It looks like I need to spend much more time reading about religions, and less time writing about them. Could you point me toward an English language treatese on Hinduism to bring me toward a greater understanding?