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Default Who's In The Vietnamese Kitchen? Hispanics


Mark Thorson wrote:
> Not really news, but certainly accurate.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...fGW_story.html
>
> 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.


OTOH over in Jackson Heights where there's a lot of both, the Chinese
storekeepers sometimes speak Spanish.


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