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From: srradia@watmath.UUCP (sanjay Radia)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Patel motels
Message-ID: <13215@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 15:24:57 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.13215
Posted: Sat Apr  6 15:24:57 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 04:12:42 EST
References: <3913@ucla-cs.ARPA> <603@rlgvax.UUCP> <4985@mit-vax.UUCP> <1479@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: srradia@watmath.UUCP (sanjay Radia)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1479@ut-sally.UUCP> riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>Indians of my acquaintance (my fiancee is Gujerati herself) view this as a
>natural outgrowth of the caste and extended family system in India, where it
>is not at all uncommon for a single large family or caste to pursue a single
>occupation, even a 20th-century urban occupation outside the realm of the
>traditional caste system.
	I think this is a little bit far fetched. I will living in east
africa and the patels there did not follow a single occupation. Now the same
people when they have moved to the US have almost all become motel owners.
One of the reasons for this is that the Patels tend to be very helpful to
other Patels, even when they are not family. They introduce them to the
motel business and help in purchasing motels.
-- 

		sanjay
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