- In 1999, when I was in Ecuador for three months I made two calls to Janelle that lasted a total of 60 minutes. It cost me nearly $120. This past week I called Janelle on a cell phone almost daily. Each 5-8 minute call cost around $1.
- Every morning, we received an English Newspaper. We knew about the Super Bowl teams, Heath Ledger's death, the Stock Market scare, and the South Carolina Primaries right along with everyone back home.
- Many of the young people I was speaking to do not have indoor plumbing. At the same time, our sessions were interrupted multiple times from those same people's ringing cell phones.
- If you are under 20 and are getting an education in India, you know English.
- I would guess that one of our largest cultural exports to India is the WWE.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
India Snapshots Part 1 - It's a Smaller world
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Well, you know what they say about the world being flat and all.
But, what is it with those Indian cell phone producers and their inability to include a silent or vibrate mode on their phones? Cell phone etiquette: What an interesting cultural difference manifesting itself in a thoroughly modern, flat-world context.
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