* Remember citizen: being turned into an ethnic minority in your own country is good because of yummy foreign cuisine!
* Obviously native born Brits could never, ever, ever in a million years learn how to make a curry. And it would be racist of them to even try.
* I have seen plenty of Indian and Thai restaurants in California with Mexican Chefs making curry. We can send them some, happy to help.
* If you can’t trust “the secretary general of the British Bangladeshi Caterer Association”, who can you trust?
* Maybe the Bangladeshi restauranter should yell less, pay more, and actually learn English.
A tight labor market produces good incentives.
* “The Department for Work and Pensions found the unemployment rate for whites aged 16-24 was 19% last September [2013]. The rate was 46% for young Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers and 45% for young black people.”
Ergo: in Britain, Bangladeshis have even higher unemployment rates than blacks.
And from Britain’s Office for National Statistics:
– “The highest rates of economic inactivity…for women were Arab (64%) Bangladeshi (61%), Pakistani (60%) and Gypsy or Irish Traveller (60%).”
– “Over half (54%) of Bangladeshi men in employment worked part-time (less than 30 hours a week) and just over 1 in 10 worked 15 hours a week or less (12%).”
– “Bangladeshi (56%) and Gypsy or Irish Traveller (54%) women were the most likely to work part-time (less than 30 hours a week). Bangladeshi and Pakistani women had the highest proportion working less than 15 hours a week (23% and 20% respectively).”
And finally, there are 450,000 people in the UK of Bangladeshi origin, 1.175 million of Pakistani origin, and 1.45 million of Indian origin. All these groups saw their numbers climb enormously in the single decade from 2001 to 2011. There is no shortage of people in the UK who can make curry.
