random question,but what ethnicities own the donut shops in Louisiana, in your experience?

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As the Khmer Rouge wiped out between 1.5 to 3 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979 and displaced hundreds of thousands more, Ngoy was steadily growing his doughnut empire in America. This niche business created an economic pipeline for newly arrived refugees from Cambodia. By the 1990s, there were approximately 1,500 Cambodian-owned doughnut shops in California.

The cultural lore that explains why doughnut boxes in the west coast are often the iconic bright pink is that they were chosen by Ngoy and his business associates as a cheaper alternative to the white boxes — suggestively symbolizing the valuation of immigrant labor compared to white labor. Cambodian Americans' dominance of the doughnut scene began in Orange County and helps us see the ongoing legacies of the Cold War from a freshly glazed lens.

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