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From: dixit@uscvax.UUCP (Vish)
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Subject: Re: Motels in Arizona and New Mexico
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 15:21:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 15:21:11 1985
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> > 
> > So my small sample shows that 38% of southwestern motels are (Asian)Indian-run,
> > in areas with not enough of an Indian population to support even one restau-
> > rant (e.g. Gallup, New Mexico).  Was it just a fluke, or have others observed
> > this?
> > -- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das
> 	I had observed the same when I was traveling in AZ near Flagstaff on
> 	that the area has so many Indian-run motels, but I can't explain it.
> 						- Raghu Raghunathan.

Also most of the those motels are owned by Gujarati families who
have come from countries other than India, like Kenya.
They have left India
long time ago and don't depend on (native) indians for their buisiness. They
are very enterprising. Owning real estate/land is very indian. Here one
needs enormous investments and technological upkeep for farming; motel
business is not so. Also there is slight mistrust among them about
currency, be it Rupeee or Dollar, due to their experiences in African
countries. Land and gold are the dearest.

In AZ, and NM we invariably stayed in motels owned by Patel families.
For some time we called them "patel-motels". In the end, they were
simply "patels" for us.
-vish dixit