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- Nov 29, 2014
Not to mention he was also great commentary about american society - he held PhD in computer science but could only get job as gas station clerk. Also all the jokes about lone gas station attendant getting shot or the place itself getting robbed, jokes about how icky gas station hotdogs are etc.Apu was actually really good representation. He was a hard-working small business owner who was always kind and helpful to his friends and neighbours
Also, one thing that the missus (who does her doctorate thesis and works at the local university) told me. Basically there's apparently services that spam cvs with same cover letters to literally any western university address they can get their hands on. Like, their department (which is sociology) gets occasionally mails that are more or less in the tune of "Sir I'm Rajesh Vitay Bangmadik, fresher from Cumbum University and I excel at < list of subjects from totally another field of study, like microbiology > and I am looking forward to working under you as part of your research group and am available to move there tomorrow". Too bad when their faculty gets those, it's some staff info mailing list, and university's IT is always just trying to adjust spam filter to counter them. And these ones are just ones that didn't get caught. I can't imagine any university taking in every yahoo who sends email either.