I thought most Indians were Hindu, not Muslims (or "Arab").
I've never tried to buy a franchise, so I don't know if it would be harder because I'm white. The only thing I can say is those kinds of people are doing those kinds of things because nobody else wants to do it... and they're making LOOT! Plus, they keep it "all in the family", so they get that support.
Anyone here could do the exact same thing if you wanted to. You just gotta be smart with your money and have a desire to bust your ass.
I've worked for Guyanese Indians and those motherfuckers don't worship a God...they worship fucking MONEY. When your whole life and culture revolves around money, you don't stop. You work 12 and 14 hour days. You save money whenever and wherever you can. It also helps to come from a rich family of surgeons too.
But basically it all comes down to what you're willing to do. In some ways "the system" is in their favor because they are immigrants, but if you KNOW the"system", you can use it to your advantage no matter where you come from.
Nobody is "taking" any job from anyone. Illegal immigrants and Indians owning gas stations are two different things.
Actually, I don't blame the immigrants for "stealing" any jobs. If anything, you all should hate the scumfuck companies that are HIRING THEM and exploiting them for cheap labor. THEY'RE the ones who are fucking "us" out of jobs, not the immigrants.
If companies were forced to pay illegals the same amount as any native American (native meaning born here), then we'd see this bullshit stop dead in it's tracks. Maybe three things could happen...either a lot MORE illegals would come here for the higher pay rate, more regular Americans would be able to compete and find work, or you'd find all those positions EMPTY.
Once you make the pay equal, then it's just one guy's labor over another. Most immigrant workers I've seen/worked with bust their ass for next to nothing, so maybe if they got paid more, they'd work harder... or maybe they'd just get fat and complacent like their American counterparts, who knows? They bust their asses because they're kept HUNGRY... but that's the fault of these greedy scumfuck companies who employ these kinds of people.
It's all fucked and doomed to fail anyway.