The Ethnic Crucible of Learning to Labor

“My goal is to find a hotel job, a lo fann gung (white American job) with fu Li (benefits). ¹ If you work for Americans, you only need to work five days a week. You have vacation time and you get a pay raise every year. If you work in a Chinese restaurant, you have nothing like that. Even if you work there for 20 years, you are paid the same.”