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« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2020, 08:21:41 pm »
Is that right, Linda? I didn't realise that.
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« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2020, 07:01:34 am »
Yes, that's what is forecast, at least it was a few years ago when I heard it.  Nobody knows what actually WILL happen but that's the forecast.  We have lots of Muslims too, not so many here but in large cities there are and we do have some. 
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« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2020, 08:09:21 pm »
We have lots of Chinese or Asians here too. Loads of shops in the centres are run by Asians.... not only food shops either.  I also note that lots of drivers around here... truck drivers, taxi, delivery trucks etc and garage workers all seem to be Muslim type !
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« Reply #18 on: January 10, 2020, 09:30:57 am »
We all have various foreigners I guess.  We have some Asians too but maybe not as many as you do.
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« Reply #19 on: January 10, 2020, 08:11:04 pm »
Sydney is full of Asians, I often wonder how there can still be so many Asia  :o
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« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2020, 08:29:00 pm »
I suppose lots of them have money.
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« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2020, 10:59:57 am »
Many of our Asians and Muslims are doctors or college professors, the more highly educated kind.  Oh yes, lots of Asians in the "nail" business.
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« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2020, 07:37:40 pm »
You must have the cream of the crop then ! I did have a lovely Asian Cardiologist in Perth though.  I don't know about Muslims being doctors etc they all seem to be van drivers or working serving petrol ! Asian girls do seem to own and run ALL the nail salons ! We also have rich Asians buying property and all expensive properties too. They now have to have special permission to buy if they are not Kiwi citizens, Good job !
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« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2020, 10:25:40 am »
I don't even know what Larry's cardiologists nationality is or where he is from.  His name is Sharad Bajaj and he has an accent.  He might be Hindu, not sure.  I don't know what the deal is with Asians and the nail business, but they seem to be the experts at it.
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« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2020, 07:43:32 pm »
Sharad  Bajaj certainly sounds Indian... Hindu Indian not American Indian :) :) Its all the young Asian girls who leave China, Vietnam etc  to get work here...  in nail shops or similar.
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« Reply #25 on: January 13, 2020, 10:40:52 am »
We have a fair amount of Asian men doing nails as well. 
Right, Dr. Bajaj is definitely not American Indian.
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« Reply #26 on: January 13, 2020, 07:48:26 pm »
I don't think I have seen any males doing nails ( I am a poet :) around here but there was one male in Perth I remember.
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« Reply #27 on: January 13, 2020, 08:19:43 pm »
Where I go to have my nails done, it's a husband and wife partnership and they both do the nails, he has done mine a few times. They are Vietnamese.
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« Reply #28 on: January 13, 2020, 08:31:16 pm »
It your nail place just a small one then with the husband and wife ? I don't know if the girls I see are Chinese or Vietnamese.  They don't seem to have much English so they don't speak much or chat.
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« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2020, 09:10:08 am »
No, there is usually about 4-5 others, they change though. Just as you get used to one lot and they go and another lot come in. One of these days I am going to ask why.
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