At 09:48 PM 02/18/2003 -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
MEChA is mostly about keeping college admission
standards lower for South American-derived wannabe students[1]. [...]
[1] Not hispanics; they don't care about Iberians
A number of years ago, a friend of my boss had been passed over
for admission to some affirmative action program for Hispanics.
He was a Puerto Rican whose native language was Spanish (he was bilingual),
but his name was something like Fred Mueller, so he failed the
Spanish-Surnamed definition used by the bureaucrats.
Exactly how "Spanish Surname" was officially defined is obscure;
Aztec-surnamed or Inca-surnamed or Maya-surnamed people
generally seem to pass. Mexico and South Texas also had a lot of
German immigrants in the 1800s, so there are German-Mexicans
with names like Jose Mueller, and I don't know if they pass,
or if they're insufficiently part of La Raza.
(There are towns in the area with names like New Braunfels, Texas.
Some of you will recognize the connections from Bruce Sterling's
"Heavy Weather".) One German immigrant who moved to Mexico's
west coast instead of the Texas area was Johan Hussong,
who built Hussong's Cantina in Ensenada; I don't know if they'd pass,
depending on whether the burons recognized Hussong as a German name
or if they'd decide that since the bar mostly sells drinks
to gringos it doesn't count...)
