Just like the movie ‘A Day without a Mexican’ that famously presented the impact the Mexicans have on the economy of California, now imagine based on the wishes of some executives in our industry that would like to see Spanish-Language media die a miserable death.
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Imagine an Industry without Spanish-language TV, Radio and Newspapers.
New Study on Latino Attitudes is … Perplexing.
By Chiqui Cartagena
Surprising results make me question the methodology of the survey
This week the Center for American Progress published results of a new study they conducted in conjunction with A Woman’s Nation, the Rockefeller Foundation and TIME magazine regarding public attitudes about women, society and the work place. The research was fielded (via telephone) in the Summer of 2009 and included a 10% “oversample of Latinos,” which were allowed to answer the survey in either English or Spanish. (They have yet to confirm how many surveys were actually conducted in Spanish).
What is perplexing to me, however, were the results. The study found that Latino attitudes were “basically in line with those of other groups” but that on some issues – like the rise of women in the workplace and balancing work and life issue, Latinos were actually more open-minded that their General Market counterparts – honestly, I started spitting my coffee out and asking myself, ¿qué, qué?
