You know for a fact he wasn't born in the States?
One of the funniest conversations I ever heard was between the Indian owner of the motel where I worked and the Jewish clerk. They were arguing about wages and the Indian guy thought minimum wage was the top wage for an “Untouchable” like me (I was grounds and housekeeping and preceded the Indian guy). He thought he was being generous to pay me almost the top wage. The Jewish guy turned him into the state and I later got a check for missed wages.
The Indian guy could not fathom that I was leaving to go back to college because college was not available for people at my level who pulled used condoms out at the motel sewage treatment plant.