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To: Doughboy who wrote (7936)	1/6/2003 8:23:02 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

And I'm sure it's an exaggeration that all of a certain department at Lucent or HP is all of one ethnicity. No, no exaggeration. There are some here who will verify this. It is true that for awhile americans didn't want these jobs- no more. Like you I think the H1-B program, the "brain drain" or whatever, is good for the US economy overall. But we have to keep some perspective, because after all, if bangalore was such a creative microcosm of technical talent, silicon valley would be located there, the internet would have been "invented" there- etc. I was told recently not to bother applying for a job at applied (I have friends there) because the guy who runs the manufacturing software div at applied is indian, and he only hires indians. True enough... if I were insecure or concerned about my employment situation this might bother me. As it stands I don't care (I actually don't do that kind of work anymore)- but what concerns me is that this kind of viewpoint is so common a backlash is surely brewing. Lizzie