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Total nonsense. As marishka said, just because it was in an english cookbook doesn't mean it was invented in england, there's always been cross-pollination of ideas and cookery across borders. See the badscience article.
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The ISP I worked for had/ has 2 kinds of internet packages: business and home. The business desk, which I worked at, was based in the UK, but the home one was in India, so we sometimes had to call them and sort things out. Their entire attitude was wrong. They had a script and they stuck to it absolutely rigidly - even when speaking with another tech support agent - and would flat out refuse to consider actually doing any thinking on their own. Not saying all call centres are like that but that's some of them are so utterly useless.
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I used to work as phone tech support for a large British ISP; I got up to supervisor so I had to take the really angry people from the front line agents, but I never really got stressed out about it; you can always put them on hold again if they won't calm down or just cut them off if they won't stop being unnecessarily abusive.

Accents: I also had to take over a lot of calls from our agents who had strong accents- quite reasonably because I couldn't understand some of them despite working with them every day. It's got nothing to do with racism - I don't even believe in the concept of race - but if you are not understandable then you shouldn't be working on the phone. (The worst offender was actually a local with a really strong regional accent.)

Having said that, I fully support giving any and all abuse to unwanted cold callers trying to sell you things. I have absolutely no sympathy for them and they should find another job.
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It's simply not true to claim that 'the true message' of any specific religion is love OR hate. All religious books and teachings have such wooly, open-to-interpretation bullshit in them that they can be taken to mean anything the believers want to.

There's certainly plenty in the christian bible, and the Torah, and the Qu'ran that promotes violence.
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