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From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Motels in Arizona and New Mexico
Message-ID: <4985@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 18:25:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 18:25:18 1985
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Reply-To: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: sweeping up after the filthy guests
Summary: 

Maybe the anomalous concentration of Indian ownership is due to their
willingness to do the disgusting scutwork and incessant cleaning that go
with the territory.  That in contrast to us Americans, who are too high
class for that sort of stuff.  (I should have said Swiss, but the major
audience is here in the US).

I have noticed the pattern that in a rich country, people of the
dominant ethnic group (Swiss, American, Irani (pre-revolution)) decide
they're too good for the shitwork, even if they're poor.  Perhaps they
think they have something better coming, and are willing to wait for it
instead of degrading themselves by committing their careers to running a
convenience motel.  Very few volunteer for jobs demanding a lot of that
kind of stuff.

Is there a similarly high concentration of Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese
and other poor-country foreigner ownership in such establishments?  When
I was in Iran the service establishments were often staffed by Filipinos
and Thais.  Oh, and Indians.
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