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ELIF: Why are nail salons so frequently operated by Asian women?

I realize it's not exclusive, but really, they just have a knack for it?
gpt
It's mostly due to family and ethnic networks.

Many of the first Asian immigrants to the US started business, they went for simple service sectors with low cost overhead in areas that weren't already saturated by Americans, such as nail salons or bodegas or small convenience stores.

Years later, when new immigrants come to the country, they tend to settle either with extended family or in ethnic pockets along with other recent immigrants from the same areas (ie, Little Italy, Chinatown, etc) and learn the trade from  them.  So they work in existing nail salons for awhile and eventually learn enough about it and make enough money from it to open their own place.  In their new locations, they tend to "pay it forward" by providing jobs to newer immigrants or newer family members and the cycle continues.