From Snake Charmers to Call Center Workers.

This was a shocker right now! I saw news from India on NBC 10 news at 4! The news, however, was about the "Rolling Seer." It showed a half-naked guy who has rolled (yes, literally rolled) the length and breadth of the country and hopes to get a visa to Pakistan so that he can roll into our neighbor (now that's a metaphor that I don't want to laugh at!). Anyway, this shock was somewhat subdued because Indians are traditionally portrayed in the US media as a country of mendicants and snake charmers and this news item only reinforced the fact. They did never show the flight of the GSLV, nor the LCA. They only show these sort of news that reinforce the stereotype.
I did, however, see a news item the other day in Philadelphia Metro that claimed something else. It said, and I quote verbatim, "The consumer revolution has started in India, what with all the Call Center Workers making such a huge amount of money..." So what do you say, people, have we graduated from being snake charmers to being call center workers?