"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> Mark Thorazine wrote:
>>
>>At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>>every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>>Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>>Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>>tend to have a good command of English, while
>>the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>>latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>>or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>>somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>>understand English at all.
>
> Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
> they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
> are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
> who do you think invented the abacus? LOL

Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, about 3000 years
before the Chinese. Why do you ask?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus

pavane