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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Mate of mine used to work in a Chinese restaurant in Glastonbury, she's caucasian.
I'm pretty sure at least one of the waiteresses in MK's Elements chinese restaurant is caucasian.
Likewise with the Indian Cottage last time I was there which was some time ago (think it's the Indian Palace now).
So, 52% of Bangladeshis work in restaurants (and most curry houses are run by Bangladeshis rather than Indians if memory serves), and only 1% of white people do.
Yet people are suprised that there are more Bangladeshis working in curry houses than white people and jump to the conclusion that whites are obviously being discriminated against.
This thread has show so much "interesting" logic you know?
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I often find that if there is a discussion along the lines of "asians are discriminated in the work place" there will be people who will always come out with "but asians are racists themselves, they will only employ their own etc etc", often typical of escapee's earlier post for example.
The problem is that rather than look at why the indian restaurant trade for example is dominated by asian workers, an assumption is made that asian restaurant owners simply don't employ whites because they are racist. There are many reasons why you see predominately asians in the restaurant trade, from cooks to waiting staff, and a predominate reason is that hardly anyone else wants to work on the same wages doing the same long hours.
And before we criticise the owners for wanting cheap labour, well one of the reasons for this is the result of us wanting cheap curries to eat. Hardly anyone cares about the salary a waiter gets, all they are interested in is how much their chicken korma is costing.