It's Hip to be Latino!

I don't know about your city but here in Houston where a large percentage of the population is Hispanic I have noticed a change.

The T.V. news anchors names.

There was a day that news anchors changed their names to easy to remember, easy to pronounce smooth sounding names. Like Gary England (a weather guy from my old state of Oklahoma - if you saw the movie Twister then you too have witnessed Gary England's relentless devotion to tornadoes). Or, Jennifer Reynolds, or Dave Ward. These are real anchors with really easy to pronounce names.

What I have noticed in the last couple of years is an embracing of the Latino names. And, saying them with all the tildes and trills in place. Why, the other night, while the hubs and I were watching the news we couldn't even understand what this woman's name was at all! She said her first and last name so fast and with so many unrecognizable inflections we both did a double take and then asked each other "What was her name?"

I have no problem with this other than I don't know the names of the news announcers any longer. I am considering taking my mother's maiden name to be on the front end of the trend. You see, her name was Salazar. I am practicing how to say it with every r getting a proper tongue trilling. I believe the trend now is to BE ethnic. Whether you are or not, just make something up.

Are you burdened with a boring old name like Smith? Just change the short i to a long one and maybe add a long e on the end. Nothing dusts off an old name like buying a few vowels! Last name Williams? Change the double l to a y sound like in tortilla. There you have it! A much more interesting and ethnic sounding name.


**Disclaimer** DebbieDoesLife does not promote or condone racial or ethnic slights, slurs or insults. She does condemn the media for turning anything into a three ring circus a/k/a trend of the moment.