Jarring to see a white person doing this job.

I saw this not because I think certain types of jobs should be done by certain types of people, but because that's what I see happening. So even before reading I knew this guy was going to be unusual in all sorts of ways.

Nice read, thanks for sharing.

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ndsipa_pomu 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Haven't visited Oslo, but I thought Norway was largely a white-skinned population. Why would it be jarring to see a white person doing any kind of job, or are you referring to some kind of job division racism?

	▲	micromacrofoot 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's the classic racism/classism combo... a lot of taxi drivers are foreigners for example because it can be a stressful and low-paying job at the end of the day.

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selimthegrim 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In a lot of US tourist cities, I would say that’s who is predominantly doing it

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micromacrofoot 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, oddly compared to taxis my experience in the US with pedicabs is that they're almost all white men driving. More of a freewheeling low responsibility type of job rather than providing for a family type situation. I wonder what sort of social shift resulted in this?

	▲	stevenwoo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If it's anything like the sport of bicycling in the USA, for a long time it's been a sport of caucasians, this is changing a bit but it trickles all the way up just from a sampling of who represents the USA at the Olympics and World Championships. Possibly a combination of the high cost of entry with the clique-ishness and the sport requiring quite a bit of free time and the support or money to have that much free time. Not talking about kids riding around the neighborhood but people who continue or start riding as adults, so not a social shift at all but existing demographics.