On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:32:02 -0000 "Bob W" <[email protected]> wrote:
> A lot of Indian people really do have European names. Not because > they work in call centres, but because of the European and Christian > influence from the days of Empire. For example, I work with a lot of > people who have Portuguese names because their ancestors converted to > Christianity in the days when the Portuguese were a major power in > the Indian Ocean. Many others have English names going back > generations because of the Raj. X Watt (Scottish father), X Glenn Chevaliere (Portuguese), X Tellis (no clue) are some very good and random friends of mine off the top of my head. Except for one, (who is frigging damn good at coding: corporate as well as open source) none of the others are in software/ call centre jobs though... :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

