I have to actually laugh on a couple counts:

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2. My hairdressers in Tennessee were building a house

The first contractor they hired had an all-local crew made of "white" guys. When they went to inspect the work after a week, it was sloppy and poorly done, so they fired the contractor. They asked around and found another contractor who employed only Hispanics. One of them went to the site one day to watch them work. They were of the "measure twice, cut once" school, and when they inspected the work, it was tight and well done. a couple weeks later, one of my friends had occasion to ask the foreman (who spoke pretty good English) why he thought his guys did so much better work than the local guys. Rather than getting the answer he expected, which was that they did it to prove that they were better and to get the jobs. the man said that in the country he came from, tradesmen, and especially carpenters, who did good work were respected because after all, "Jesus was a carpenter, no?" Hard to argue with that.