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NES?
Why don't you just say Mexican Nationals or something like that? You end up pulling the race card anyway.
Did you tell them to stop doing it?
NES
Night Reader,
You, of all people know how outspoken I am on this blog, OF COURSE I TOLD MY NEIGHBOR about their rude gardeners. They were very embarrassed and admitted they had done this before. I saw him going over to scold them himself.
I posted this so other readers can enlighten themselves about the harmful practice to all our storm drains.
Non-English Speaking
Something else to consider is that JA's ended up doing gardening because they were denied other jobs that were better.
non-English speaking
Is the US the ONLY country with a great big huge INFERIORITY COMPLEX? Japanese gardens are renowned world wide. Also, there are Italian shoe makers who have been at their craft for generations, and they are among the most beautifully crafted and expensive shoes in the world and in fashion, not to mention Italian tailors, Chinese chefs, Jewish diamond cutters. I guess writings of Gustave Flaubert and the term "petty bougeoisie" could apply here.
non-English speaking
There's nothing wrong with Japanese gardening, and everyone likes to live on the old Nisei streets, but I thought that a lot of guys did that because Asians were shut out of a lot of jobs. They'd have these college degrees, but, nobody would hire them. They'd have a high school diploma, and they'd be shut out. I mean, this is the 1940s and 1950s.
So... those conditions cause people to try and start businesses that have a low up-front cost. Gardening was (and is) that business.