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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Future of America is at Dental Associates on Cesar Chavez Dr. in Milwaukee
Ever since I was a little kid I've been getting my teeth cleaned every six months. So when I moved to Milwaukee I did a Google search for a dentist closest to my apartment near Marquette University. This particular place happened to be on Cesar Chavez Dr. just north of Marquette, in the hispanic part of town. Being from outside of the city I never knew what parts of town are supposed to be the "good" parts or the "bad" parts, but apparently this neighborhood qualifies as a "bad" one. However, I've never had anything but a pleasant experience here. The people in this neighborhood have treated me with a great deal more respect and dignity than most hispanics would get in a white neighborhood, and I don't speak Spanish either. Almost everyone at this Dental Associates is bilingual, and the signs are written in Spanish and English. In the seats are black and brown people, with a smattering of white folks like me who do not reject the idea of going to the dentist on Cesar Chavez drive. MSNBC was on the TV, not Fox. The only staff members that could not easily switch from English to Spanish were the non-hispanic staff. Maybe if more people from Whitefish Bay went to the dentist on Cesar Chavez Drive the country would not have such a warped image of hispanic immigration and the multicultural future of America. The Right has constructed such a terrible image when the reality is that everyone in this country can get along with one another as long as we're open-minded enough.
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This is such a very uplifting post. It doesn't matter what your ethnicity is or which part of the world you come from as long as you can do your job well, it doesn't matter. There are a lot of good dentistas in the country who are discriminated because of their ethnicity. It's time for people to look past that and see professionals for their abilities.
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