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Posted on 10/09/2025 12:30:59 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
The biggest name in the American hotel business is not Hilton, Marriott, or Ritz-Carlton — it is Patel. A LinkedIn post by Sarthak Ahuja recently shared how the Gujarati Indian community, which forms less than 1% of the US population, now controls about 60% of the country’s hospitality business. It began with one man’s journey in the 1930s that laid the foundation for an entire community to rise in the hotel industry.
The story traces back to Kanji Manchhu Desai, who arrived in the United States from Trinidad in 1934. He overstayed his visa and worked on farms in California. During World War II, a Japanese American hotel owner was forced to leave due to wartime restrictions and trusted Desai and his friends to manage the property in his absence.
Desai brought together his friends — one to manage the front desk, another for cleaning, and a third for laundry. That experience introduced them to the operations of running a hotel in America.
After the war, Desai leased his own property, the Hotel Goldfield in San Francisco. He then began writing letters to his friends and relatives in India, especially in Gujarat, encouraging them to explore the same business opportunity.
According to the post, Desai guided newcomers on how to lease and operate hotels, provided accommodation during their early days, helped finance their ventures, and even advised them on finding suitable locations.
Over time, around 400 Gujarati families followed his lead. What began as a community effort gradually expanded into a multi-generational business network that now spans across the United States.
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Most North Indians are, indeed, Caucasian. South Indians are largely Dravidian. Some Pakistanis ̣including Patels are Dravidian. Some are IndoEuropean/Caucasian.
Technically, any ethnic group that scores above the black average on any test of IQ or academic achievement is officially designated as white or white adjacent. This includes Romulans, Klingons and Vulcans. This is how the DEI sorting cap works.
And just like that, there were no Ukraine posts any more.
Gotcha! Makes sense.
S hole people make s holes. Just stay in a Patel photo hotel. They are all dumps.
Motels, not hotels. Big difference.
(Someone here informed me that Indians are considered to be Caucasian; they aren’t — unless you’re color blind.)
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That may have been me.
They’re Caucasians for The U.S. Census purposes.
Anthropologically, their skulls are Caucasoid; meaning, not African nor Asian...
1) Retired, I make a “migration” of a typical snowbird. Nearly every motel overnight involves a “Patel”. Sometimes, the boss and an underling are both Patels.
2) A relative was in the airline reservation business. She said Patels drove her crazy with coupons, discounts, and cancelations.
I asked the same question. Apparently, it has to do with the skeletal structure and not skin color>
FReeper “Does so” explained it to me this way:
“They’re Caucasians for The U.S. Census purposes.
“Anthropologically, their skulls are Caucasoid; meaning, not African nor Asian...”
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