I'm not sure why the animosity regarding Faldage's statement about migrant workers?......I understood he was merely pointing out the difference between 'percentage assumption' vs 'prejudice'.
No animosity, there, Ruby. I was just reacting in surprise to the leap to analogy that someone might think all Hispanics are migrant workers. To call Hispanics "migrant workers" in a derisive fashion is, of course racist and hostile, as is calling a black person a "cotton picker." But my confusion with Faldage's initial analogy would lead, using your nail salon story, to the assertion that there are people who assume all Asians are nail manicurists. ("Oriental" is considered offensive and no longer acceptable to many people, BTW )To assume someone is a migrant worker just because they're Hispanic is prejudicial...but to assume there are people who assume that all Hispanics are migrant workers is an untenable notion, and not, I now know, what Faldage was intending to say.
