From the Bourdain video about Singapore having slaves (maids)
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I, Rigoberta Menchu is a fantastic read for anyone interested in the history of Guatemala from an indigenous perspective. One of the things that stood out to me was how being a maid in the city was seen as pretty much the worst possible job, worse than working the fields on coffee plantations, because the people who owned the houses were such reactionary psychos