Why are most gas station employees/owners of Middle Eastern or Near Eastern descent?

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Something I’ve always wondered. The most famous example in media is Apu from the Simpsons who is Indian.

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I wonder if some of it may be that some got into it a while ago, and that they told their relatives about it back home who started saving with the plan of doing it themselves, and now there’s a network of people from within that culture helping them to get off the ground with owning gas stations and convenience stores.

Similar situations may have evolved with Vietnamese people and nail salons, Chinese people and dry cleaners (as well as Chinese restaurants obviously), or Russians/Eastern Europeans in trucking/transport.

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