Something I’ve always wondered. The most famous example in media is Apu from the Simpsons who is Indian.
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I’m assuming you’re American. To be very precise, it’s not *most* gas station employees — about 65% of gas station employees are white, according to Census Bureau data. Rather, what you mean is that a *disproportionate number* of gas station employees & owners are Middle Eastern. While I’m at it, there is *also* a disproportionate number of South Asians who are gas station & owners employees. There are a couple of things going on. One, all else being equal, immigrants tend to cluster in careers where you don’t need to be an expert in the subtleties of American culture. The hard work at a gas station is maintaining the equipment and working with your supplier; it’s not salesmanship.
The other thing, though, is that the US government specifically encourages this sort of thing. If you have money, skills, and work ethic, but zero connections in the USA, then one of the best ways to be allowed to immigrate to the USA is to get an EB-5 Visa. Long story short, if you can set up a business that invests at least $1 million in capital costs in the USA, then you are allowed to move to the USA to run that business and start the process towards full citizenship. And what’s a business that costs about $1 million to set up, but not much more than that? A gas station.
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