That wasn’t true when I was in, about 10-14% of all the senior officers and senior chiefs were latino.
I wonder if they are just limiting this to mexico and central america or something like that.
This is what I was taught, I learned this since middle school:
https://www.nas.org/articles/Ask_a_Scholar_What_is_the_True_Definition_of_Latino
“The word latino is a Spanish word that has entered the English language. In Spanish, it means someone belonging to the people of ancient Latium, in Italy, whose language was Latin; so the Romans of course were latinos. Another and related meaning of latino in Spanish refers to someone who belongs to the cultures of the Romance Languages, that is, those peoples whose language, and to a varying extent, whose culture, too, derive from the language and civilization of Rome, which was latin.”
Strange. In the Corps we always had a lot of folks with Latino surnames in leadership positions.
“I wonder if they are just limiting this to mexico and central america or something like that.”
I can tell you this from my work experience. An African black with a PhD or a British black with an engineering degree does not count as black. At least judging from the body language of our EEOC evaluator. Likewise, this black woman who came to evaluate my company was not impressed that we had a Russian and numerous Asians. She was looking for blacks she identified with. (I don’t know how the evaluation worked out as far as our government contractual requirements. I was asked to show her around my department and introduce her to our minority workers.)
Not sure if Pete Quesda would even qualify these days:
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106101/lieutenant-general-elwood-r-quesada/
Born to a Spanish father & Irish-American mom.
Lot of Amerindian