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The rap is mostly, from my experience, a consequence of outsourcing. The Pajeet frustration comes from three things:
I'm having a problem with my internet connection. I ring up my ISP, who have outsourced their call centre to India because it's cheaper. I now have to deal with someone who barely speaks English, in an incomprehensible accent, and who cannot for any reason deviate from the script in front of them to actually deal with my problem because they don't have the language command needed to go off script. This is not a Good Experience.
I'm at work. A large part of our project has now been outsourced to India, because it's cheaper. I now have to deal with the same lack of English as before, but this time I'm chasing them up for deliverables. I ask if the work has been done. Pajeet says yes it has, of course it has. I ask where it is and can I have it. Pajeet says actually no it hasn't been done, he's very sorry and he'll get it done right now. Why do they just lie about things which will get exposed instantly?!?! This is not a Good Experience either.
The third thing is, of course, all the fucking scammers.
Anecdotally as well, the only time I, a (kind of feminine) male, have ever been sexually harassed by a man was in a hotel in Paris, by an Indian porter, in a lift, and he also smelled like actual shit. I know that's just an anecdote, but it makes me more willing to believe the stories of others.
I mean I can't defend these acts. As of now Indians I know have started using the term pajeet for the bottom 95 percent of Indians.
The nation I'm in is doomed for a reason, terrible hbd, zero trust leading to dishonesty being the default outcome in many places and having 2 billion such people with little variation thanks to the elite biocapital dying off or just not having kids.
The outsourcing side is terrible too, you pretty much pay pennies for terrible code instead of giving locals gainful employment.
I can't say anything explicity because then I'm Ian Miles Cheong, a guy whose tweets are close to 1488 posting where he talks about western civilization dying due to too many browns whilst being a brown man living in Indonesia. I'm fairly aware of what's being described, I just can't be that guy. Like no matter how different my sub clan and people may be, I'll still be seen as one.
The sexual harassment stuff is true, most if not all marriages are dead bedrooms, plenty of homosexuals who never leave the closet. Thailand to its credit isn't as creepy, you can walk around in thongs as a girl and won't get oogled at, that's not the case in most beaches here. Similarly girls in most places leave their houses at night. US has grim rape statistics, Indias are lower mostly because actual rapes never get reported.
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