History Main / AsianStoreOwner

A {{Trope in Aggregate|s}} based on the TruthInTelevision reality that many grocery stores and corner shops in North America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by Asian immigrants and their families. The specific ethnicity differs depending on which country of origin the work takes place in, reflecting the different trends in immigration these countries experienced. In the US, South Asians (particularly Indian) and East Asians (Chinese and Korean, especially) will be the store owners. Similar can be said for the UK, though West Asians (what Americans would typically refer to as Middle Easterners) are also very common, along with Pakistanis. In TheWestern, Chinese shopowners are common, because in the US, many Chinese immigrants were sent to the West to build the Transcontinental Railroad that connected the eastern and western parts of the country. [[note]]About ''90%'' of workers on the western part of the railroad [[https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise/new-perspectives/forgotten-workers were Chinese]].[[/note]] After work was finished some were able to stay and live in the US, finding work as [[ChineseLaunderer launderers]] and store owners.

A TropeInAggregate based off of the TruthInTelevision reality that many grocery stores and corner shops in North America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by Asian immigrants and their families. The specific ethnicity differs depending on which country of origin the work takes place in, reflecting the different trends in immigration these countries experienced. In the US, South Asians (particularly Indian) and East Asians (Chinese and Korean, especially) will be the store owners. Similar can be said for the UK, though West Asians (what Americans would typically refer to as Middle Easterners) are also very common, along with Pakistanis. In TheWestern, Chinese shopowners are common, because in the US, many Chinese immigrants were sent to the West to build the Transcontinental Railroad that connected the eastern and western parts of the country. [[note]]About ''90%'' of workers on the western part of the railroad [[https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise/new-perspectives/forgotten-workers were Chinese]].[[/note]] After work was finished some were able to stay and live in the US, finding work as [[ChineseLaunderer launderers]] and store owners.

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-->''Get the fucking out!\\
Shoplifters will be persecuted!''

%%* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'' had one.

* ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': Mr. Wing is your stereotypical mystical store owner who looks a bit frightening, judges you harshly, and refuses to sell anything if he thinks you aren't ready to handle it. Deconstructed to a degree in the first film, with Mr. Wing's grandson badgering him that his persnickety attitude has turned the store into a money pit, which is the reason why he sells Gizmo to Randall behind his grandfather's back, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom making him responsible for all of the mayhem that follows]].