On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They stay six or seven to a small apartment, cook in the apartment, save a > lot - I mean a lot - of a salary that's already pretty low, and then go > back home loaded with gadgets bought from the nearest best buy, chocolates > from a 7-11, and a bank balance that reads like 200..250k rupees ($5000 > say) rather than 15..20k rupees.
Is this different from the migrant labor in the middle east? In the late 70's early 80's my second cousins would visit from their slightly-white-collar jobs in the middle east with suitcases loaded with bic pens, nylon t-shirts and ABBA and Boney-M cassette tapes. Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
