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Welcome to my world. I have a Masters from USC, ample international experience, worked for fortune 500 companies, but somehow I always run short when the other candidates are Anglos.

During interviews I always receive words of praise from my interviewers regarding my resume and extracurricular activities. Fantastic, Excelent, you are top teer....but from time to time I also get the hints of pasive descrimination.

It is just the facts of life in America. I don't complain, just try to make it one step at a time.

Juan, thanks a ton for posting this. I've taken the liberty of posting the Spanish version here:

http://gringounleashed.typepad.com/gringo_unleashed/2005/02/puertas_cerrada.html

As a fluent, spanish-speaking gringa from South Florida, I too have had the same experiences along my career path. At first I took the complements and disbelief of my colleagues as just that- a complement. However, over time I came to see that despite the boundaries I have crossed and overcome, I am still seen as a "gringa curiosa". As the daughter of a spanish teacher in a multi-cultural environment, I never looked at my bi-lingual ability as a curiosity. Now, in my mid 20s, I have grown to feel a little self conscience of my skills. After a few years of struggling with large corporations in the hispanic market, I have finally found my niche- bringing American companies into the spotlight of the hispanic community through marketing and relationship building. With my bi-cultural and bi-lingual skills, American companies are eager to find people with our skill sets to bring their business to that next level and truly become more available to the hispanic community. In my experience navigating the bi-lingual/bi-cultural job market, I have been met with some opposition. I have had to discover what the market demands and what they are looking for, whether it may be discriminatory or not. Once I found my niche and put my skills to work, I feel like I have finally gotten off on the right foot. Hopefully over time, as our world becomes more multi-cultural on all sides, color-bias will be a thing of the past and we can all just do our jobs as we know we can do.

There is a world of nuances separating pluperfects, preterits and imperfects. You might be overrating your Spanish a bit. Había estado hablando con mi profesora, for instance, should be “hablaba con la profesora de español.” ¿Qué estás pensando hacer?, “¿qué piensas hacer?” Le había visitado para sus consejos en cuanto a como mejorar mi español para uso en entrevistas con los medios. You do need consejos to improve that sentence, etc.
Raúl.

Now you know what Latinos have been going through since the begining.

Okay, this may seem off point but...this is exactly what women have suffered for decades, and continue to suffer. We are asked to interview for positions the company would normally put a man in, then courted, then ignored...or worse, hired and asked to make coffee. While being fluent in a second language, especially Spanish, is a good thing, it's no guarantee to getting a job. Any more than obtaining an MBA in a field dominated by men would guarantee a woman a job she is qualified for, and deserves. I'm not downplaying, rather...I don't mean to downplay your frustration, it's very real, but...I think you need to be creative in your approach to this problem. Forget politeness on the side of the interviewer-- they don't have to be polite and get back to you, now do they? Forget being fluent in Spanish. Forget being white. Think about being--- good at the job. Explore other areas your talents could be used...other organizations or companies--woman owned firms, perhaps. In due time, you will be able to write your own ticket. Accept this discrimination for what it is...a fact of life, nothing more. Then, go out and prove the idiots who didn't hire you, wrong. Be successful at whatever you do end up doing. And, write about it...in a blog of your own or in a book. Those are tools that could go far to exposing the truth. Just remember: don't whine, tattle, or stretch the truth. Not easy, I know, but...it can be done.

I think Yvone's insistance on pushing her man hating agenda at every opportunity is tiresome and self serving. As Latino's we should stand together irrsepective of gender to right the larger wrong's, Son Famila Cosmica first. Our strength has always been strong familes and it's our only hope for the future. Yvone, don't hate the player, hate the game.

I just read Yvonne's comment at this Hispanic Blog. I'm a professional in Marketing and I live in South America. I lived for 2 years in US and I have to say, probably I was very lucky, but I never felt discrimination. Where I've being discriminated is in my own country. Being a woman, a professional, an hispanic is always a plus and Americans always reconize and appreciate that. I read the other comments and I feel that probably who wrote never felt discrimination. That's probably the reason why the do complain about it. I do also think that in an interview, how confident and sure about ourselfs, matters. Having an aswer, receiving a mail even telling you that your qualifications don't match for the job, that's polite. Did you ever had the experience to send houndreds of resumes and never get an answer back? It happend to me, Think about it.

Sorry Ryan, no sympathies here. Welcome to my world. The difference is you CAN go back to "your" world, if things don't work out in LatinoLand. We don't have that option. We must keep overcoming the same adversities you faced the rest of our lives. Yet, somehow we manage to get ahead.

So please, spare us the "woe is me" routine.

This board is beginning to sound ignorant. America is not made up of Anglos and Latinos. I am fluent in Spanish and Italian and am from Italian descent. I am not an Anglo or a Gringo. I don't like either of those words. I am Italian, the actual origin of the Latin culture.

This is kind off topic but, okay look you are a Gringo and im a mexican gurl that is a student in the high shchool and all im looking for is just to Graduate go to school and WORK and for my luck i cant work just the fact that im mexican illegal here in the United States and all i wish is to WORK but, no one hires me. All i need to let people (GRINGOS) know is that all mexicans want to come to the United States and WORK that we are not no dangerous people. we just want to work and have a normal life like a gringos. I wish i were to be rich like those gringos at school. but no i dont even have a job but its cool ill have a career and one day i'll be someone big here in the United States.Its like they say puertas cerradas pero para mexicanos.

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