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Originally Posted by Russ B
Is it just Port Talbot or do Indian/Cantonise/Chinese restaurants in other areas have very few or no whites employed there?
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Its the same around here, for a number of years I did the circuit of chinese takeaways in the Cwmbran area, mainly because after a few years they changed hands and the standards went down so I would try another. I kept stumbling across a white woman and her daughter working behind the counter, and knew it was a good one when I found them.
I found out that the mother was married to a chinese guy who was a cook, he was a good cook because I knew as soon as I saw them behind the counter the food would be OK.
These two white women were OK for working in the takeaway though because the husband was the chef, I have only ever seen one other white person around here serving in a chinese takeaway. It's the same with the Indian takaways, very rare to see a white person working there.
The exception these days though seems to be other type of shops run by Asians, my local SPA has a white guy stacking shelves. I dont know what its like these days, but all the Indian/Pakistani shops in the Pill area of Newport were very lacking in white workers. I used to find there was a bit of an atmosphere in the shops in that area, I was never sure if they were trading just to cater for the Asian community but I never felt welcome when I entered. (I'm talking about 10-15 years ago though)