Be American, Buy American.

IF I have a choice I will buy American any time. Unfortunately that is not a problem. My dad was a long time GM worker and diehard UAW member. (We don't agree politically or about the union mentality.) But he doesn't even want a gift if it comes from another country. We keep our eyes open all year for gifts for him. I did get the buy American mentality from him though.

I don't see the need to cater to foreigners, we put up signs in multiple languages, have to provide services (police, fire, government, schools) to people who don't know how to speak our language. Used to someone came to our country and learned the language, now that does not happen. Why should they if they don't have too?

And on the whole tech support thing in India, that strikes close at home for me. I spend about 1/2 of each day at work doing training and tech support. I recently had to spend over a week working with tech support on an $800 laser printer we bought. It had terrible print quality. I spent hours talking to people who could not communicate effectively with me(the customer). Each time I was EVENTUALLY sent to level 2 tech support or to their manager (who while Indian did speak excellent Engish). They sent out parts, had a tech come out and replace parts, and eventually someone just had me do a simple procedure that reset the fuser. Why did it take over a week and hours on the phone?