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You wouldn't find that perception in Latin America

Submitted by LaFoca on March 2, 2010 - 11:26am.

But it is wholesale inside of the U.S. And it has been for decades. It still is, even in Los Angeles where there is a huge Latin population. You can see companies every day who hire Latinos and blacks for the lowest positions in shipping and receivng or service call centers and the top wrung of management is all white faces. And in places like Costa Rica, many of the faces at the top of organizational structure are lighter too. Even in Latin America, there is a feeling that the darker a person is, the less qualified he is...although it is going away more and more.

But many of us were taught not to marry darket than we were...and this was ESPECIALLY true in my mother's country of Argentina.

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