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[serai]

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I'm just watching footage of Richard Gere being burned in effigy over in India.


Richard Gere.

Being burned in effigy.


The world has officially gotten too weird for me.


ETA: This made me ROFL -

Jon: Where would you even get a Richard Gere effigy?

Aasif: Well, you just take a Josh Hartnett effigy and age it about 30 years.

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[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

From what I understand from an Indian friend, him kissing her on stage was like getting to 3rd base and going for home in public. Then her (my friend's) father added, "And people still wonder why we left 'such a beautiful and exotic country'."

The more I work with vendors in Asia, the more I realize how screwed up India is. The VP of our department has even instituted an unofficial ban on using Indian vendors, because of the deplorable conditions in the factories. (When we were looking at one, the vendor sent pictures of his factory, the people were sitting on a dirt floor making scarves, and then he started going on about how benevolent an employer he was because he provided mattresses and sex-segregated dorms!)

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Sheesh. Puts me in mind of a friend of mine who'd taken a vacation there because he was a big music fan. He too found it a thoroughly fucked up place. When I mentioned the word exotic, he immediately answered, "There's nothing exotic about India!" The poverty and callousness really freaked him out, too.

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

It gets really depressing doing business internationally, and seeing how so many things and attitudes we take for granted are non-existent for most of the people in the East. Even with China, vendors will often outright lie to us. At least the company I'm working for is reaching the stage where we can start using green vendors who take care of their employees.