How Tippi Hedren made Vietnamese refugees into nail salon magnates
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interesting, so the ones in power managed to get back to power, in a way.
This comes close to associating some moral character to success, which is something I find dangerous.
I think it is more helpful to say that these people had extensive networks among their leadership group and had experience and skills in management of people and situations, persuasion, and goal-directed achievement. Perhaps also darker skills which can lead to business success, such as intimidation, extortion, fraud, etc - I don't know to what degree any or all of those skills were present.
Amazing how they not only came to dominate the industry, but they essentially built it.
Also wish the nail industry was healthier for these women to work in. It still seems to be a place where a lot of newly landed Asian immigrants find work and I wonder about the long-term health effects of working with those fumes. I knew a manicurist who suffered miscarriage after miscarriage -- surely the toxicity of the nail shop she owned may have had something to do with it. I have also heard, from someone who works at Sephora's corporate office, that nail polish is so flammable it is not allowed to be shipped by air. Harsh chems.
Case in point, in relevance to HN: I knew someone who was sourcing electronic parts from there. Japanese companies have set up their "outsourced" manufacturing there, with electronics plants meeting some ISO standards, etc. There is a heavy female:male predominance at many of these plants.