[UPDATE: In the comments about this item at SepiaMutiny, someone came up with an alternative caption. It's reproduced below.]
As you know, there are a lot of jokes, cartoons, etc, about outsourcing and call centers (including some along the right side of this now-out-of-date SAJA Roundup). But the cartoon below, which ran in today's WSJ, has got to be the first to bring the issue of caste into the call center situation (can't figure out the cartoonist's name except for what appears to be "Nick").
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The joke in the cartoon is not on the Indian call center operator supposedly asking whether the caller was of the right caste - the joke is in the irony that a cartoon from the very culture that exported the jobs to India also projects its prejudices onto Indians.
"DJDP" then created this:
