Wow so many nice racial comments in here, not all of us agree with the "dog meat festival" so don't pair us all with it.
As for claiming a chinese guy is "poor" because he runs a takeaway has probably jumped on the property bandwagon years ago and used the earnings from "takeaway" to buy properties and then renting them out to make profit on top of working 5-7 days a week.
My family immigrated to the UK back in the 80s and they didn't really get to receive any proper education coming from poor background, they didn't really get to learn english to the point they can hold a hour conversation as they all had to work to help support the family. And the only skill they knew was cooking so hence the takeaway business, now being raised by my parents i've always been told to do well in school and it will all pay off, now this and not wanting to be in the takeaway business is what motivated me to have a "no bs excuse".
I've never took a day off from school unless I have to and only called in sick work twice in 3 years of my work career(only 26).
Most of us that were born in the UK won't be working in takeaway as we have taken that lesson and now being employed in specialist jobs, so expect this process to be repeated by future asian immigrants.