Why is it the same kind of people run almost every subway?

I thought it was just an urban thing but stopped at a subway way out in the middle of nowhere alabama (was certain it would be like a 100% white area and the same kind of non-oriental Asian people were running it.

What caused this?

At least with convience stores you get a mixture of indians and nigerians but these guys have subway on complete lockdown.

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM. Reason : not a problem just seems odd ]

1/17/2010 12:04:44 PM

every subway i got to is run my arab people.

ive NEVER seen an asian operated subway

1/17/2010 12:06:27 PM

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" non-oriental Asian people"

from wiki:
Orientals - Asian or Asiatic people (the Asian Continental Ancestry Group)

1/17/2010 12:06:34 PM

Why don't you ask them?

1/17/2010 12:06:40 PM

ntlb

1/17/2010 12:06:51 PM

5

1/17/2010 12:07:23 PM

Anybody else read a thread and be like, "WTF, who posted this?" Then you look over and see mambagrl and go, "Oh."

1/17/2010 12:07:38 PM

I think it's all in your imaginary head.

1/17/2010 12:07:43 PM

5 dollar

1/17/2010 12:08:49 PM

I think just saying, "brown people" would have been less offensive than your original description.

1/17/2010 12:09:19 PM

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"every subway i got to is run my arab people. ive NEVER seen an asian operated subway"

um....

1/17/2010 12:09:29 PM

5 dollar footlong

1/17/2010 12:09:42 PM

I've never really seen a pattern, the one near here is run by an old white guy with a push-broom mustache.

1/17/2010 12:10:24 PM

LOL... nicklepickle is a dumbass

1/17/2010 12:11:45 PM

Probably because Subway is the cheapest restaurant franchise to buy into.

1/17/2010 12:11:45 PM

^well why don't americans buy it like they do waffle house? why don't nigerians buy them like they buy gas stations?

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"from wiki: Orientals - Asian or Asiatic people (the Asian Continental Ancestry Group) "

the orient does not include the middle east.

except nickleprice doesn't think the middle east is part of asia. What are they then? Africans? europeans?

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM. Reason : very strange]

1/17/2010 12:12:52 PM

Arabs

1/17/2010 12:14:22 PM

^^ holy shit.. are you really a teacher ?

1/17/2010 12:15:53 PM

i know a couple subways that aren't like this.

not near Raleigh though.

1/17/2010 12:16:32 PM

most of the ones i know of aren't asian at all.


They're mostly lebanese, jordanian, syrian, and/or egyptian.

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM. Reason : . ]

1/17/2010 12:19:10 PM

I dont know, but I think "non-oriental Asians" makes sense as a term. Since most people don't consider Indians, Syberians, or Saudis to be "Oriental"

1/17/2010 12:20:41 PM

so instead of describing them as non-oriental asians why wouldn't you just put middle-eastern, if that's really what you meant?

1/17/2010 12:21:34 PM

yeah, that's a good point.

1/17/2010 12:22:25 PM

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1/17/2010 12:54:47 PM

why is europe separate from Asian anyway? Seems racist...

1/17/2010 12:56:17 PM

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1/17/2010 1:02:37 PM

^^it is, if anything india and arabia should be separate from eurasia

1/17/2010 1:17:22 PM

when i was 16 i worked for subway and a white woman owned it. back then, it was all normal people that owned subway. by the time i got to college, all the subways were owned by foreigners. i'm really not sure how or why it happened...but there ya go.

1/17/2010 1:19:51 PM

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"most of the ones i know of aren't asian at all. They're mostly lebanese, jordanian, syrian, and/or egyptian."

Everyone you just named EXCEPT for Egypt is Asian

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"it was all normal people that owned subway"

Every subway I've ever been to, even now, is owned by normal people. Not sure WTF you're talking about.

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" all the subways were owned by foreigners"

I'm pretty sure most subways are still owned by Americans...unless of course its legal to be here on a work visa and own your own business.

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM. Reason : .]

1/17/2010 1:22:36 PM

hahahahah yeah i totally sounded racist in that post

that's not what i meant!

1/17/2010 1:24:29 PM

i like the term oriental because its very clear to everyone what you mean.


most people don't know enough geography to know the difference between east asian, south asian, southeast asian, etc


mongoloid would work, too, but that is more offensive

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 1:29 PM. Reason : .]

1/17/2010 1:28:57 PM

Golovko gets uppity ITT

1/17/2010 1:55:52 PM

Hahahah normal people

1/17/2010 1:58:50 PM

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"They're mostly lebanese, jordanian, syrian, and/or egyptian."

this has been my experience


on a side note, though they are indeed part of the asian continent i never considered russians or those from the middle-east "asian," at least as far as a the colloquial term is concerned

1/17/2010 2:05:21 PM

maybe it's a southern thing bc all the subways in my area in upstate NY are owned by white people

1/17/2010 2:05:58 PM

i've always considered russians to be european

1/17/2010 2:17:55 PM

oh, also

1/17/2010 2:23:24 PM

I haven't noticed anything of the sort with subway places....

1/17/2010 2:24:03 PM

^^lol

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM. Reason : carrots]

1/17/2010 2:24:16 PM

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"maybe it's a southern thing bc all the subways in my area in upstate NY are owned by white people"

you never see these types of people in miami...unless you go in subway. Its like they ship them into places where they aren't part of the population specifically to work at subway.

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 7:14 PM. Reason : and dj khaled]

1/17/2010 7:14:06 PM

In any event, you shouldn't use "oriental" when referring to people. It may be used when referring to items such as rugs and so on.

1/17/2010 8:22:10 PM

my bad. Should've said brown asians as opposed to yellow ones.

1/17/2010 8:46:12 PM

Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

1/17/2010 8:48:35 PM

subway is still very diverse from my experience, of the three closest to me, one is white, one is black, one is mexican, and the mexicans probably win

I think the best were the indian or arab ones in raleigh though

1/17/2010 10:37:47 PM

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"well why don't americans buy it like they do waffle house?"

Subway is a boring, legitimate business. Waffle House is an exploitative business by its very nature. White people would much rather be exploiting poor people who work the night shift and truckers who have to drive all night than just selling sandwiches to regular white collar dudes at $5 a pop.

1/17/2010 10:42:20 PM