On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 December 2010 07:54, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rent a White Guy - Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing > > Companies in the Middle East have 'token whites' all the time, white > > expats in good suits who come for the first meeting. > > And companies in Malaysia often have a token Bhumiputra figurehead.
And in Saudi Arabia there will be a token Saudi son of the soil involved in the deal - you never get to see him, his name on the paper is all that matters, that and the 5% you send his way. In Tamil Nadu I believe that translates to having a member of the "savior of the tamils" family involved in any transaction deemed large enough. Cheeni
