Reviews & Comments
Albuquerque, NM
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10/25/2016No, Mexico is actually slightly safer. And slightly less bat-crap racist.
Albuquerque, NM
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10/25/2016Oh, you can speak Spanish (learned "somewhere else") and STILL not get the job. If your skin is "too dark" they will ask you "so what makes you think you can speak Spanish" in the job interview, refuse to give you the Spanish TEST, and shoo you out the damn door. Misperception discrimination runs rampant here. If your skin is "too dark" you're treated like "black" even if you're NOT, and that's more the entire Mountain Time Zone because I got crapped on in KKKolorado like that too (Pueblo and "The Springs.")
Albuquerque, NM
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10/25/2016If you are BROWN you will also not fit in there! They expect you to be white with a Spanish surname; that is what constitutes "Hispanic" here. Brown Indians, dark Latinos, will NOT fit in here. In spite of the fact that it's Indian Country. It feels like that's almost a LIE. Percentage of the population nonwithstanding, that is. Indian Country is going more towards Grants-Gallup and out there there are REALLY no jobs except government and law enforcement, both of which will turn you down for the job if you attach your college transcripts to the job application (they will say you "do not meet the minimum educational requirements" as if they really couldn't READ it, I kid you not.)
New Mexico, NM
re: New Mexico robbed me of 5 years of my life - 1 -
12/21/2015Thanks for sharing my opinion. It's hard to get out, though, when you're paying dirt-cheap rent and everything else around it is either way more expensive or way more white-supremacist gringo. Yeah, if you come here as a teacher or a nurse or some other profession, the job that got you here is the ONLY one there is for you. When that ends - as it will inevitably end, if you try to DO anything to help people or God Forbid, teach them anything like Physics or Calculus - you find you can't get another one ANYWHERE. I'm left to try to escape by getting admitted to a PhD program somewhere else.
Problem is, especially the states surrounding it don't want you if you came OUT of there. They assume if you've BEEN there you must be "from" there with the "born and raised there" attitude that is what I know they don't want. Now I'm stuck with the additional stigma (apart from being Native American) of being "from" Gallup just because that's where I went TO to teach. The states around it are equally bat-crap stupid and have their heads in their asses.
Thing is, because of dirt-cheap car registration and insurance, I want to keep my car registered there (no smog requirements) but driving it will feel like "the yellow badge of courage" is on my car. Even in Denver, I have to tell people I've BEEN TEACHING "out in Continental Divide." What's with everyone's assumption that wherever you go TO, must be where you were born and raised? It's that - whatever the hell that is! Mentality around here that's driving me crazy! I want to go to DIA and fly out of here to another COUNTRY where all that incessant "where you from, where you from, where you from" would be JUSTIFIED, for God's sake.