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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Motels in Arizona and New Mexico
Message-ID: <4848@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 01:00:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 01:00:52 1985
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Reply-To: das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

In article <793@peora.UUCP> san@peora.UUCP (Sanjay Tikku) writes:
>
>	                                                    I am refering to
>	the fact that the "POTELS" (the ones I have encountered) are
>	positively dirty and disgusting. I don't intend to get into the
>	reasons for that as the majority of the audience of this net probably
>	knows them. Also, I would rather spend some extra money
>	and stay in a cleaner place.
>
After I posted my orginal article asking if the 3 out of 8 motels I stayed at
in the American Southwest being run by (Asian) Indians was a fluke, I learned
not only about the phenomenon of Patel motels, but also the stereotype of their
proprietors.  While your experience may fit the stereotype, mine didn't -- two
of the motels were fine, and the other was so-so, but certainly not "dirty and
disgusting".  In fact, all were listed in the Auto Club guide, which is why we
stopped at them instead of their neighbors.  [Except in Las Cruces, New Mexico
-- the first listed place we were about to stop at had a big sign "American-
owned"; we figured that such an obvious appeal to racism shouldn't be rewarded
with our patronage.  I expected the slighted people to be Latinos, and was
surprised to find out the competition next door was Indian-run.]

-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das