An all too familiar predicament[1], except I grew up accustomed to also seeing Filipinos (services) and Bangladeshi (construction) in similar melting pots. > L

An all too familiar predicament[1], except I grew up accustomed to also seeing Filipinos (services) and Bangladeshi (construction) in similar melting pots. > Locals suspected that Chinese mobsters were disposing of corpses in exchange for passports, which they then sold to new arrivals, a scheme that took advantage of the native population’s apparent inability to tell any one Chinese person from another. There was a note of jealousy to the Pratans’ complaints, as well as a reluctant respect for people who had beaten them at their own game. Morbid humor aside, this game and it's variants are apparently quite common[2]. [1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/1993/07/18/world/made-usa-hard-labor-pacific-island-special-report-saipan-sweatshops-are-no.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/1993/07/18/world/made-usa-hard-la... [2] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/business/saipan-casino-illegal-chinese-workers-trump.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/business/saipan-casino...