Nothing Says Equal Opportunity Like Making Latinos Declare Their Ethnicity on Job Applications
Nothing Says Equal Opportunity Like Making Latinos Declare Their Ethnicity on Job Applications
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Job applications ask everybody questions.
Latinos just seem to get the bonus round. 📋
Nothing Says Equal Opportunity Like Making Latinos Declare Their Ethnicity on Job Applications looks at that oddly intimate little moment when a perfectly ordinary application suddenly wants to know whether you are Hispanic or Latino.
You came here to discuss experience, qualifications and whether you can start Monday.
The form has other interests.
Sharp, funny and just uncomfortable enough to make the point, this Tantrum Media editorial takes one of those hiring rituals people have learned to click through without thinking and asks the impolite question:
Why does this one feel different?
Because when a system tells you ethnicity should not matter, then goes out of its way to ask about yours, curiosity starts to feel a lot like bureaucracy with boundary issues.
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For readers who enjoy their equal opportunity with a small side of “please identify your ethnicity before proceeding.”
Part of the original Tantrum Media Magazine Editorials collection and our Politics Collection.
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