The Macacas Are Coming
Third World invasion of tech industry is undermining salaries and competency.
by Ian Mosley
While on the campaign trail in 2006, Senator George Allen referred to an Indian who was following him around with a video camera for the Democrat Party as a “macaca.” No one seemed to know what “macaca” meant. In all likelihood it was a made-up word for Hindus by Allen. Curiously, the word has taken on a life of its own and is being used to describe Third World invaders from Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent.
The Conservative Voice website has run an interesting article by Liz Davis on “The Macaca Effect.” The column starts off: “What is the ‘macaca effect’? First of all, what is a macaca? A ‘macaca’ is a racial pejorative to refer to someone either from or with ancestry from India or Pakistan. And the ‘macaca effect’ is pejorative used by people in high tech to refer to East Indians driving down the wages of American and British high tech workers. In many fields (computer programming, engineering, medicine, nursing, accounting, etc.) companies are faking labor shortages to acquire an H1B visa and hire East Indians, with the net effect of driving down the wages of American and British employees. Thus, one hears disgruntled employees talking about the ‘macaca effect.’”
I wonder how disgruntled this author, Liz Davis, will be when she loses her high-paying job, writing articles, and is replaced with a minimum-wage “macaca.” If she doesn’t think this will ever happen, at least one major US newspaper has outsourced journalist jobs to India to cut costs. See you in the unemployment line, Liz. (more…)