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
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
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.
^well why don't americans buy it like they do waffle house? why don't nigerians buy them like they buy gas stations?
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
1/17/2010 12:54:47 PM
why is europe separate from Asian anyway? Seems racist...
1/17/2010 12:56:17 PM
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
1/17/2010 1:22:36 PM
hahahahah yeah i totally sounded racist in that postthat'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, etcmongoloid 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
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
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 winI think the best were the indian or arab ones in raleigh though
1/17/2010 10:37:47 PM
1/17/2010 10:42:20 PM