id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt race-1994-02 race-1994-02 1994 .txt text/plain 1758 63 46 More importantly, Korean American small businesses provide indirect benefits to large-scale capital by distributing national brand-name products to under served urban populations, reducing labor standards and costs, pioneering new areas of enterprise for eventual takeover by big capital, and perpetuating the myth of ethnic entrepreneurial success within class society. A classic example of what sociologists refer to as a middleman minority, Korean American small business owners serve as an effective buffer between absentee EuroAmerican capitalist owners and non 5. cache/race-1994-02.txt txt/race-1994-02.txt