The lowest job you can have is that of a shepherd, today as well as 2,000 years ago. Even in Cambodia, the lowest job is a shepherd. Usually they get kids to be the shepherds. If a family has adopted kids, it would be the adopted kids who have to watch the animals in the fields.
“Velkom Xhom!” I was greeted by the immigration officer at Los Angeles airport. Obviously he was of Russian decent, very recent decent. I was already being hit with culture shock.