Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 8:51:49 PM, Paul Stone wrote: AR>>Wake up and smell the decaf no-fat mint mocha grande chai. >> >>A friend is an Indian software developer in Bombay. (cut) >>And then there's the maid, the cook, and the rest of his staff. >> >>That's middle class in India. That would be the ultra rich in the USA. PS> Okay, so there is NO middle class in India. There is rich, really rich and PS> car duster/washer. But one day they WILL have a middle class. there's a middle class in India; an upper middle class (like this man), a middle middle class, and a lower middle class. (Just like the UK, really...) -- mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html