Corner shops
There's a corner shop across the road from me; I don't use it much, mainly just milk for breakfast when I've run out and occassionally other odds and ends. Anyways, I was generally surprised at it as it was one of the few such shops still run by a non-India family. However, it too has become yet another corner shop run by an Indian family (albeit one that must have stayed in the UK a while judging by the accents).
Now, I don't view this as good or bad, it's just posing the question I've thought about before - why are most small newsagents/cornershops run by families of Indian/Pakistani origin? Pretty much every one you go into in Edinburgh is run by an Asian. Is there something in the upbringing in India that makes them want to get up at 6am to supply the locals with their intellectual journalism for the day (i.e. the Sun/Star)? To want to deal with the schoolkids, the shoplifters, the drunks etc?
I'm not wanting to be racist about this - I don't really care who runs the shop, but the percentage of corner shops run by asians seems astonishing considering the relative minority of them in the population as a whole.
Now, I don't view this as good or bad, it's just posing the question I've thought about before - why are most small newsagents/cornershops run by families of Indian/Pakistani origin? Pretty much every one you go into in Edinburgh is run by an Asian. Is there something in the upbringing in India that makes them want to get up at 6am to supply the locals with their intellectual journalism for the day (i.e. the Sun/Star)? To want to deal with the schoolkids, the shoplifters, the drunks etc?
I'm not wanting to be racist about this - I don't really care who runs the shop, but the percentage of corner shops run by asians seems astonishing considering the relative minority of them in the population as a whole.