Some years ago my brother-in-law tried to take advantage of benefits because of his surname 'Diaz' (he was half Mexican).
That didn't fly because he apparently was just too 'American' (native English speaker, etc). jay On 21 Feb 2003 at 16:55, Bill Stewart wrote: > > 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.
