How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels

Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by iguy on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:17PM (#17921544)

Yes indeed, they specialise within India too. And surely some of the same network benefits may apply there too. Surely Parsi entrepreneurs (a century ago) got better loans... backed in part by the fear of angering a close community?

It's also my hazy impression that the plantation-labor Indian groups haven't done nearly as well on the whole.

Another example is the surprisingly high proportion of overseas Chinese who are from Fujian.

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Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by vram22 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:13AM (#17926404)

>Surely Parsi entrepreneurs (a century ago) got better loans... backed in part by the fear of angering a close community?

Could be. I do know that Parsis are said to take care of the elderly and poor of their community. They have retirement homes and do charity for them, etc. They are generally philantropic too, like some others. Good of them.

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