Extremely Worrying, Racist, Or Just Plain Business Sense?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2802543/taxi-firm-rochdale-offers-white-drivers-demand-two-pakistani-origin-jailed-sex-grooming-girls-town.html

[andy-hughes]

Hypognosis - "Ric.roar - "Strange thing is - no matter where I go most of the taxi drivers I see are asian
I wonder if this is true and, if so, why ..."

i think it is true, and an educated guess suggsts that a lot of Asian businesses will emloy family members, which in the case of extnded families, can be a large number of people.

Therefore, if an Asian proprieter buys a taxi business, he or she can probably staff it entirely with relatives, or friends - hence the large propensity for Asian drivers in most major towns and cities.

I stress this is entirely an educated guess, I am of course open to contrary evidence.
13:30 Wed 22nd Oct 2014
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You appear to be accusing them of nepotism? Or do white taxi firms operate in a similar manner?"

I am not accusing anyone of anything.

I put forward a theory, with the proviso that it is a guess, an educated guess, but that's still a guess, so no accusation intended or inferred.


"Are there statiristics for what job types take people off jobseekers i.e. hiw many successfully get into taxi driving, other than being related to an owner?"

I have absolutely no idea.

If I'd had facts to back up my guess (there's that word again!) I would have used them.

I could be entirely wrong, I have no idea, that's why I put forward my view a guess - not a fact.

[ludwig]

// Andy offered a choice between the warm, shark infested, Atlantic(lol) and freezing to death in the Arctic. In other words, no choice.
AOG offered a dangerous/safe option. //

That's why I didn't understand it either.