Questions
1. Why do Hispanics get paid more than the Chinese garment workers? Shouldn’t the Chinese workers get paid more since their bosses are also Chinese?
2. Why don’t Koreans hire other immigrants? Why do they only hire Hispanic immigrants?

Comments
-I found the differences between the Chinese garment shops and the Korean garment shops to be drastic. These differences are based on many factors, such as the pay system, the ethnicity of the workplace, and the gender roles of the workers. The Chinese garment shops is a bit disorganized with cloth laying on the ground. This is because the workers are getting paid by piece, so there is no work being passed from person to person. Furthermore, since the Chinese garment shops are coethnic, there is more leniency and flexibility. The Chinese workers do not punch the clock upon entering work. They are allowed to leave the workplace to pick up their children and to do their grocery shopping. There is also music being played in the work area as well as food stations for the workers.
The Korean garment shops, however, are more strict with their workers because they are getting paid by the hour. The Hispanics cannot come and go as they please; they have to use the punch clock. In addition, work is passed from person to person, like an assembly line. Thus, the workplace is very organized. Furthermore, there are both men and women working in the garment shop because they do not follow the traditional roles. The Hispanic men do not consider sewing to be a woman’s job.
-I found it interesting that the Hispanic men don’t mind working in the garment workshop, but the Chinese men do mind. The Chinese workers brought their traditional roles with them; the men consider garment work to be “women’s work.” The Hispanic men, however, are just concerned with making money and do not care about ‘gender roles.’
-I found it interesting that the Chinese followed the family emigration pattern and the staged emigration pattern while the Hispanics followed the transnational emigration pattern and the singles emigration pattern. The Chinese want to build a home in the United States while the Hispanics want to return back to their homeland. This is the reason why many Hispanics do not bring their children to the United States.