As always, Kaye, fascinating stuff. Your comments and insights are appreciated and fun. I would have wondered the same things. Here in Tokyo, so many of the corporate or diplomatic expatriate community have nannies, usually Philippine or Indian. Over the years, as side work, I would tutor or assist children of these wealthy families, and more often than not I got to know the nannies much better than the families. My level of existence here is far different than the corporate expats, and with an immigrant Mexican mom, the nannies and I often found common ground. They would be working to save their money and send it back home to support their families, much like many of the Mexican itinerant workers I met working in temporary jobs in boat yards and factories, as worked when I was younger. Good people, all women, and treated me with kindness and good humor.
Hi Kaye, pardon my minor nitpicking. In "Minnie Green"'s section, Bangalore is not a coastal town, while Madras town (now Chennai) is. I guess she would have travelled from Madras itself?
As always, Kaye, fascinating stuff. Your comments and insights are appreciated and fun. I would have wondered the same things. Here in Tokyo, so many of the corporate or diplomatic expatriate community have nannies, usually Philippine or Indian. Over the years, as side work, I would tutor or assist children of these wealthy families, and more often than not I got to know the nannies much better than the families. My level of existence here is far different than the corporate expats, and with an immigrant Mexican mom, the nannies and I often found common ground. They would be working to save their money and send it back home to support their families, much like many of the Mexican itinerant workers I met working in temporary jobs in boat yards and factories, as worked when I was younger. Good people, all women, and treated me with kindness and good humor.
Hi Kaye, pardon my minor nitpicking. In "Minnie Green"'s section, Bangalore is not a coastal town, while Madras town (now Chennai) is. I guess she would have travelled from Madras itself?