I want to see a team called "The Indians" that is actually people from India. It just has to not portray them in a racial stereotype manner, but in a respectful and realistic representation. They can also serve Indian food at the concession stands!
... My school district had a football team called the Indians for years. All the adults complained when it had to be changed to The Eagles out of political correctness. Some understood. But a whole bunch complained. I think my parents did. I don't remember.
I want to see a team called "The Indians" that is actually people from India. It just has to not portray them in a racial stereotype manner, but in a respectful and realistic representation. They can also serve Indian food at the concession stands!
Only if all members of the team are also actually Indian.
I want to see a team called "The Indians" that is actually people from India. It just has to not portray them in a racial stereotype manner, but in a respectful and realistic representation. They can also serve Indian food at the concession stands!
Only if all members of the team are also actually Indian.
I want to see a team called "The Indians" that is actually people from India. It just has to not portray them in a racial stereotype manner, but in a respectful and realistic representation. They can also serve Indian food at the concession stands!
Only if all members of the team are also actually Indian.
Cricket. Pretty much every team.
...you realize that's racist, right? Not in a particularly bad way, just, in this context...
I discovered a neat linux trick just out of necessity. If you don't feel like typing a whole filename, you can type cd * if it's the only directory in the current directory, otherwise the first few characters that differentiate it and *
I discovered a neat linux trick just out of necessity. If you don't feel like typing a whole filename, you can type cd * if it's the only directory in the current directory, otherwise the first few characters that differentiate it and *
I want to see a team called "The Indians" that is actually people from India. It just has to not portray them in a racial stereotype manner, but in a respectful and realistic representation. They can also serve Indian food at the concession stands!
Only if all members of the team are also actually Indian.
Cricket. Pretty much every team.
...you realize that's racist, right? Not in a particularly bad way, just, in this context...
Not racist but factually incorrect unless he is only talking about Cricket teams that are based in India.
I want to see a team called "The Indians" that is actually people from India. It just has to not portray them in a racial stereotype manner, but in a respectful and realistic representation. They can also serve Indian food at the concession stands!
Not what you're looking for, but the closest you'll get.
The "Mumbai Indians" from the Indian Premier League (cricket).
However like the English Premier League for football, teams hire international talent as well by having more attractive contracts. 2/3 of the team is Indian, 1/3 is sourced by international players in this particular team.
I had a bit of a racist grandpa moment today, but it had a decent message. He was talking about how the "Indians" look to their elders and whatnot but the elders are living in the past and it's the younger people that understand the modern times.
That's actually not too racist. There's a huge proportion of the Native American population that identifies as "Indian". The only reason I don't use the term is to avoid confusion. The racist part is the looking to their elders, because that really wasn't the case -- Indians had the same generational conflicts that everyone else does.
I've heard general statements from anthropologists stating that in small tribal societies "elders" had the most sway when it came time to make a decision. I can imagine a strong oral tradition having a big part in that.
I've had no less than three different teachers assign readings from Jared Diamond. I would complain because he's not good enough to warrant reading three times, but he's good enough to read once and they're each operating independent of each other, so I'm just kind of weirded out.
Their redeeming factor is being associated with PA (good or bad) and having an interesting work environment, which there are plenty of already. Many small development companies that make good money basically give you anything you could possibly want as far as amenities so really you're just in it to be associated with PA.
Eh if I had the skills and could I would go for it. It would be no different to any other shitty job at that level especially if you were fresh out of Uni.
Edit; They are also vauge about wages but I would imagen that it would be competative for the feild.
Its crappy grunt work, but crappy grunt work at PA which seems to treat its staff better than most. I would imagen they are not short of aplicants.
Oh yeah, they're going to have thousands of applicants based on the name alone.
They have to be offering competitive salary, because if they didn't, the people they would want for the job - ie, skilled, motivated professionals - would tell them to shove it up their arse. The kind of people who would work for peanuts in this kind of a position based on a name alone are - surprise surprise - not the kind of people you generally want to hire for this sort of work, because they're starry-eyed twits obsessed with the idea of working for PA more than doing a competent job.
I'm finding it amusing though, despite the fact that they're likely to at least be offering a competitive salary for that reason - Khoo isn't stupid, after all, and has managed to assemble a good number of employees without hiring a pack of incompetent wankers, so that should tell you something - The Tumblr crowd are using the line "Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better" To indicate that you'll be paid practically nothing in exchange for a few tiny perks, and basically be tied to a chair to endure Mike being history's worst monster all day, and everyone who applies is either a monster or a sucker.
Oh I thought that was a given, I mean the company induction is to murder a gaggle of children.
The whole negotiable wage thing is just to make sure people know its not all about the money.
I would imagen, like any job, if your good at it then you will be well rewarded. PA have made it clear from the start that they are a family and that seems the big selling point. Like I said it seems no different to any other job and if anything a bit better in some regaurds.
Well for one they don't have a whole lot of consistent income so as a developer your salary probably won't be that great for what they're requiring. Also saying you worked at penny arcade isn't going to carry the same weight saying you worked at Microsoft will. I mean it's telling when half the people who go to PAX don't even know what penny arcade is.
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My school district had a football team called the Indians for years. All the adults complained when it had to be changed to The Eagles out of political correctness. Some understood. But a whole bunch complained. I think my parents did. I don't remember.
Yeah.
List of current first-class cricket teams
The "Mumbai Indians" from the Indian Premier League (cricket).
However like the English Premier League for football, teams hire international talent as well by having more attractive contracts. 2/3 of the team is Indian, 1/3 is sourced by international players in this particular team.
Edit; They are also vauge about wages but I would imagen that it would be competative for the feild.
They have to be offering competitive salary, because if they didn't, the people they would want for the job - ie, skilled, motivated professionals - would tell them to shove it up their arse. The kind of people who would work for peanuts in this kind of a position based on a name alone are - surprise surprise - not the kind of people you generally want to hire for this sort of work, because they're starry-eyed twits obsessed with the idea of working for PA more than doing a competent job.
I'm finding it amusing though, despite the fact that they're likely to at least be offering a competitive salary for that reason - Khoo isn't stupid, after all, and has managed to assemble a good number of employees without hiring a pack of incompetent wankers, so that should tell you something - The Tumblr crowd are using the line "Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better" To indicate that you'll be paid practically nothing in exchange for a few tiny perks, and basically be tied to a chair to endure Mike being history's worst monster all day, and everyone who applies is either a monster or a sucker.
The whole negotiable wage thing is just to make sure people know its not all about the money.
I would imagen, like any job, if your good at it then you will be well rewarded. PA have made it clear from the start that they are a family and that seems the big selling point. Like I said it seems no different to any other job and if anything a bit better in some regaurds.