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Tag: canadian

Do you think ‘tip culture’ is getting out of hand in the US? Why or why not?

Of course. I’ve always been of the opinion that tip culture is absolute BS, especially for people who have lived abroad in non tipping cultures like in Asia. There’s a few problems I have with tipping culture. Firstly, the fact that employers basically can underpay their workers and use customers to subsidize their wages and […]

April 23, 2022
Why is it so difficult for Canadian franchises to expand to the US?

Possibly because: Canadian companies don’t have access to as much investment capital as American companies do and expanding into a very saturated very large market requires ALOT of capital Canadian investors are generally more risk averse than American investors Canadian companies have to compete harder just on the basis of not being an American company. […]

December 12, 2021
How are Asian Americans culturally and psychologically different from Asians who grew up in Asia?

I think the place where you grow up is what most determines who you are as a person. From my experiences with Asian Americans and Asian Canadians (myself being one) I think Asians who are American or Canadian born (ABC or CBC we call them) are more often than not the same as any white […]

January 6, 2019