Right after Thanksgiving of last year I was giving a conference for some business owners in Arizona, and this Anglo gentleman approached me with the following statement: "Why are some of my Hispanics so ungrateful?"
I thought, whoa - since when are we Latinos an ungrateful people? Well, I was polite and simply asked him to explain to me why he had this perception of our people. He said, "At Thanksgiving this year I gave all my men turkeys, and they just didn't seem to appreciate it." I asked him if there were other instances of ungratefulness on the part of his employees. He said no.