Tag: immigrant entrepreneur experience

Donuts, genocide, and the American dream

Jan 5, 2011

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by

mwkruse

in Business, Economic Development, Economics, Immigration, Microenterprise, Poverty

BoingBoing: Donuts, genocide, and the American dream (HT: Cameron Horsburgh) Most visitors to Los Angeles and the west coast are struck by the number of donut shops, but few know that the vast majority of local donut shops are owned by Cambodian refugees who fled the killing fields of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. This is…