Comment on A true ally

ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was the quick shift to “very handsome” without a pronoun modifier.

  Linguistics ftw!

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• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I imagine him Persian or Arab, because in my limited experience they have been the most charismatic shopkeepers.

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’re used to a lot of owners and managers of convenience stores (I think this includes corner stores?) and gas stations being naturalized citizens and foreign nationals. Idk how that got started or how widespread it is, how much of it is a true demographic vs confirmation bias of what we see portrayed in entertainment and media—but either way there is a clear concept of people in that line of work, true or not.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Part of this is because for someone in the process of obtaining citizenship in the US it’s actually much easier to legally start a business than it is to legally get a job. And with the decade or so that it can take to become a fully naturalized citizen in the US, folks have to make ends meet somehow so they’ll naturally start a business since that’s the one way they can legally make money until they get a work permit.

    This is part of why there’s such a thriving restaurant scene for foreign foods across the entire US, a family will come and pool their time and money to open a small restaurant, and that will be how they survive until everyone gets work permits and eventually naturalized. There’s even a sub-industry of immigrants teaching other immigrants how to start a successful restaurant and what recipes work well for the American pallete. This is where some of the staples of Americanized Mexican and Chinese menus come from for example.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do Americans say “corner shop”? Corner shops are usually UK thing because they are shops that are on the corners of residential streets, hence the name. When the houses were built it was thought that people would need access to convenient shops so they built the street with a shop on it.

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    • lillardfair@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure. In the bigger cities sometimes. More often we’ll say convenience stores, bodegas or just use the chain store name like 7-11. But corner store gets used often enough even if the stores aren’t actually on corners

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    • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They do, but it’s primarily a New York thing, from what I understand

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  • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In my city, the overwhelming majority of convenience store owners are Chinese.

    I should ask the ones near my house how they started.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone has an accent!

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, are they just trying to say foreign?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not necessarily. People who say “he has an accent” just think that their accent is “not an accent” so it could also be a (different) regional accent.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Having an accent is code for immigrant. If someone from alabama goes to new york, they are never described as “having an accent”.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For some reason I imagined him with like… A Bosnian or Hungarian accent or something

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• fenrasulfr@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The shop owner in the village has this awful accent. Something about baguettes and croissants. Indiciferable as a someone from the Netherlands.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Haha same

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An accent of ? Read it out loud to us

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I made so fart jokes based on wtf

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• phx@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not sure about these days - other than 7-11 the typical “corner store” seems to be getting increasingly rare - but when I was younger most were generally run by people that I assume were immigrants due to having some accent or other.

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same here… But in my defense the guy that runs the corner store near me has one, and Apu from Simpsons comes to mind too (the two have completely different accect btw

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