{"id":1061,"date":"2007-02-20T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2011-01-19T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T19:10:25","slug":"immigrants-are-more-likely-to-succeed-as-business-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/immigrants-are-more-likely-to-succeed-as-business-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants Are More Likely to Succeed As Business Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that immigrants are more likely to be successful than native-born Americans as business owners.\u00a0 Why is this?<\/p>\n<p>You  can draw your own conclusions, but America has always been the land of  opportunity. Shackled by poverty, a tyrannical government, limited  rights, no infrastructure, new people coming to America perhaps are  thrilled at the freedom they have to create a new life and be  successful.<\/p>\n<p>There is something to be learned from this.\u00a0 Perhaps  they are also not lulled into mindless pastimes of the MTV &#8220;Real&#8221; World,  or domesticated or pressured to fit into a peer culture that seeks  material comforts and goods over frugality and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>As  chiropractors, clinic directors, office managers, marketing  coordinators, Chiropractic Assistants, and health care providers of all  types, we should all have the attitude that we live in the land of  opportunity. Each day we are free to create the kind of job we want and  should be thankful that we are here, and not dodging bombs are  scrounging for water as others are in their countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econedge.org\/14\/immigrants-are-more-likely-to-become-successful-entrepreneurs-business-owners\/\">Immigrants Are More Likely to Become Successful Entrepreneurs &amp; Business Owners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that immigrants are more likely to be successful than native-born Americans as business owners.\u00a0 Why is this? You can draw your own conclusions, but America has always been the land of opportunity. Shackled by poverty, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/immigrants-are-more-likely-to-succeed-as-business-owners\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}