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When people misuse a word so often, it renders it meaningless
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Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Ramon Estevez (google if you don't recognize the name) doesn't have to justify to me why he changed his name and never speaks spanish in public, but if you ask me if he has issues with being hispanic, I will say YES he does. That's my opinion. I don't need an explanation from him either.
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I'd say he changed his name because he knew, just as well as I know, that the ethnic sounding last names on resumes tend to be passed over, especially back in the late 60s/early 70s. If I can be asked--based on my last name alone, in a telephone job interview in 2001--whether I consider myself to be hispanic, I imagine that the questions for him when he was first looking for roles would have been more intense, if they bothered to give him an audition at all. Why would he have named his children Emilio and Carlos if he wanted to deny his heritage?
I generally don't speak Spanish in public either, despite the fact that it was my first language.
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