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  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.

    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?

   Mexican art directors, account managers and staff who work at the multicultural advertising agency, Adrenalina, New York, will march in support of immigrants and workers rights and to voice opposition to Arizona’s new immigration law at a rally and march today at Union Square, 14th Street and Broadway.

Adrenalina personnel, including the ad agency’s creative, account management and strategic teams who have visas to work in the U.S., are legal residents and who are U.S.-born Hispanics, will wear white T-shirts conceived and designed by their colleagues bearing the phrase “I Look Illegal.”