I don’t think the attitude has anything to do with skin color. I’ve been in retail businesses where people of all races are using EBT or WIC. Some act embarrassed they are on assistance and some become angry when they’re prevented from buying unauthorized items. I think the response has more to do with upbringing.
Interesting side note. A good while back, I had a coworker who had an uncanny ability to get people to talk. He would just start a conversation and pretty soon near strangers were telling him their life story. He liked to eat at a popular Asian buffet and would talk with two of the young Asian ladies who worked there.
Long story short, they told him they were brought in to the country illegally and worked in exchange for being brought here. They were provided food and a place to live, but received very little in the way of pay, more like a small allowance. They claimed a lot of the Asian businesses were doing the same thing. Here is a little sauce to back up their story and a quote from the article:
Most undocumented Asian American immigrants usually find themselves working in the service industry. The two most common being restaurants and nail salons
I believe the majority of foreign owned businesses do this. They “sponsor” people on visas who work off the “costs”, basically slave labour. So no taxes on their labour. It’s a sneaky and unfair advantage.
These businesses need to be raided and audited often.
While doing my paper route as a young boy I noticed a house in the neighborhood that had 1 minivan and about 20 Asian people living inside. I could see through the windows that what SHOULD be the dining room, living room, and family room had all these sheets strung up to divide the rooms into small living quarters.
They would all pile into that poor van in the early morning and I could hear the engine straining up the long hill towards the Mandarin restaurant a couple streets away.
I never put 2+2 together until I started waking up years later.
I don’t think the attitude has anything to do with skin color. I’ve been in retail businesses where people of all races are using EBT or WIC. Some act embarrassed they are on assistance and some become angry when they’re prevented from buying unauthorized items. I think the response has more to do with upbringing.
Interesting side note. A good while back, I had a coworker who had an uncanny ability to get people to talk. He would just start a conversation and pretty soon near strangers were telling him their life story. He liked to eat at a popular Asian buffet and would talk with two of the young Asian ladies who worked there.
Long story short, they told him they were brought in to the country illegally and worked in exchange for being brought here. They were provided food and a place to live, but received very little in the way of pay, more like a small allowance. They claimed a lot of the Asian businesses were doing the same thing. Here is a little sauce to back up their story and a quote from the article:
https://u.osu.edu/mahmoudi-4/2021/10/22/employing-undocumented-asian-americans-and-labor-exploitation/
I believe the majority of foreign owned businesses do this. They “sponsor” people on visas who work off the “costs”, basically slave labour. So no taxes on their labour. It’s a sneaky and unfair advantage.
These businesses need to be raided and audited often.
The correct term is "indentured servitude", and it's illegal.
Except when it isn't, like H1Bs.
While doing my paper route as a young boy I noticed a house in the neighborhood that had 1 minivan and about 20 Asian people living inside. I could see through the windows that what SHOULD be the dining room, living room, and family room had all these sheets strung up to divide the rooms into small living quarters.
They would all pile into that poor van in the early morning and I could hear the engine straining up the long hill towards the Mandarin restaurant a couple streets away.
I never put 2+2 together until I started waking up years later.
Those people must have been upbringing from the jungle. LOL