Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
by erikpukinskis on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:18AM
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I think of the nuclear family more as an invention of 20th century ad campaigns. It’s a lot harder to sell mom cooking and cleaning products when she has help from an extended family.
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Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
by iguy on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:17PM
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Many people thought this, e.g. it was assumed in Victorian England that the past looked a lot like the present of less-developed countries, like Russia.
But it's not true, we have data. The quite readable book on this is Laslett, "The World We Have Lost". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1362413/Peter-La...