My wife's ancestry is German. It would really be stretching things to call my wife German-American, but I guess you could. I don't think there would be any implication that my wife has a working knowledge of German. She doesn't.
If someone is "Latino", is there some requirement that they speak Spanish in order to justify the desgination?
Perhaps he’s simply the most qualified to PERFORM HIS DUTIES?!?!?!
What a concept!!!
Oh, the humanity.
In return, those persons largely refused to teach their AMERICAN children their native language.
I knew a legal Hispanic of Mexican background tell me that when she did a stint at MacDonalds, Mexicans would come up to here and start rattling off in Spanish. They’d get ticked off when she told them she didn’t speak the language (true - she was completely Americanized).
There was another Americanized girl I knew who did speak Spanish, and said that one time she worked in a mushroom plant in PA with a lot of Hispanics. When asked something in Spanish, she replied in English. One day one of the women said that she ought to learn Spanish. In fluent Mexican, she replied that when she was in Mexico, she spoke Spanish as a sign of respect for the people and their country - and - when she was in America, she spoke English for the same reason. If I wasn’t already married, I’d have gone for her.
How long before La Raza shows up to insist on racial justice that would see this man losing his position as an obvious ringer?
Hey everyone, look at us. We promoted a minority. Aren’t we just so special?
He only likes women? Well, that isn’t going to go over well in Boston.
Well, it’s better than my first thought when I read the headline. I thought they meant he didn’t speak ENGLISH!!!
It would be funny if he actually spoke Latin... ‘See, I’m a genuine Latino (caveat emptor)’
They would probably be thrilled if he spoke ONLY Spanish.
We had a clerk/typist of Mexican descent in our office (born in CA) who was hired with a minority preference - she could barely type and was nearly illiterate but they kept her for over a year until she had to be let go for incompetence. She sued, of course - and lost. Her sole argument was racism against latinos, but she could not speak a word of Spanish, let alone function at work.
While in H.R., I was sitting on an interview panel for a position open in our department. A stunning Latina girl with an obvious Spanish name was an applicant. Our ever-so-PC Director, said, “I assume you speak Spanish.” At that point, the applicant softly and strongly said, “No; I do not. I am an American.” My hero. (We became close friends.)
The right last name, like the right skin color, trumps other considerations.