Geography Terms
History and Politics of India
Advantage #1-Low Wages
Advantage #2-English Speakers
Advantage #3-Trained Workers
Potpourri
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A person who is unable to read or write.
What is illiterate?
100
India is noted for being the world's largest __________.
100
One reason that labor costs are lower in India.
What is the large size of its workforce?
What is the cost of living is lower?
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The country that is responsible for making English the second dominant language in India.
What is Great Britain?
100
This is a reason why not all Indian children attend school.
What is they are too tired from working to help family earn money?
100
Which region is India located?
What is Monsoon Asia?
200
The practice of hiring someone outside of a company to do work that was once done inside the company.
What is to outsource?
200
This country is the only one that has a larger population than India.
What is China?
200
One reason why Indians want informational technology jobs.
What is the relative higher pay?
What is the working conditions?
200
This is why English is so widely spoken and understood in India.
What is Great Britain colonized India and stayed until 1947?
200
This institution was founded in 1951.
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The name of the worker who drove an auto-rickshaw in Bangalore.
Who is Nareesh Patel?
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This is the average cost of basic necessities, such as food, clothing, and shelter in a particular place or country.
What is cost of living?
300
The two main religions in India.
What is Hinduism and Islam?
300
This is one of the reasons that America outsources informational technology jobs to India.
What is the lower cost of labor?
What is the good English skills?
What is that they are highly trained?
300
This is the language of business and government.
What is English?
300
This when highly educated people leave their country to find work in another country.
What is brain drain?
300
Despite Indian's relatively low wages, they still have this standard of living?
What is a high standard of living?
400
When a country can offer services more cheaply or effectively than competing countries.
What is comparative advantage?
400
India is this many hours ahead of Michigan.
What is 9.5 hours?
400
This is India's official language.
What is Hindi?
400
This is why many Indian speaking students take English classes prior to getting work in call centers.
What is they want to sound more American?
400
This is what S.T.E.A.M. stands for.
What is science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics?
400
The two countries that have the largest workforces.
What are China and India?
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The overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or a country.
What is standard of living?
500
For thousands of years, Indian society has been divided into many groups, which make it difficult for people in lower levels to be successful.
What is the caste system?
500
The percentage of Indians that are illiterate.
What is 25%?
500
The fraction or percentage of Indians that speak Hindi.
What is 2/5 or 40%?
500
Many Indians see this as their ticket to a good job.
What is education?
500
The name of the island just south of India.
What is Sri Lanka?