I do believe we're looking at this from 2 different perspectives here - Udhay, you're looking at from the outside (the wanna-haves), so in order to get in, you must speak their language, while Frank is one of the insiders - the "haves and wanna keep" side, so a foreign language is only important if it's one of the 'pukka' ones (i.e. Western European).
Very simple - the companies have clients with
European/Japanese/Korean operations, and therefore people who speak
those languages are in demand. I have seen this in several companies
so far, including two that I have worked at.
Udhay
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Forgive me for being cynical (something that I have not listed as a trait in my intro but Udhay knows better) - if you look at the whole political/economic structure of the world today, you will probably notice that colonialism is alive and well... so a hundred years ago you forefathers may be fetching scotch and soda for the sahibs, now you're answering their customer calls... then, you were forced to buy cotton from Lancashire or face the gunboats, now they're trying to force open your financial, telecom etc markets in the name of free trade.
Hmm... I think it's time for bed, I think I've been trying to light way too many fires tonight, must be tired...
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