Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Hispanic's creativity will help the US succeed in the 21 Century

Hispanics are creative almost at the DNA level. Just think about what our parents and grandparents or perhaps even ourselves had to do in order to survive when first arrived in this land of opportunity. I've known Hispanics who held two and three jobs and somehow managed to keep some sort of family life. Now that requires creativity! New arrivals are mostly nimble. They are here to work and to succeed for their families. They follow work where ever it can be found. Move from city to city, from state to state. They have side businesses or perform small jobs whenever asked if they can do this or that. They may have never done that type of work before but end up "learning on the job" and do plumbing, electricity, carpentry and all sorts of things. If that is not a creative way of making a living I'm not sure what is.
But that is not the extent of how creative we are. We are not only blue collar and agricultural workers. We are also a tremendous force in just about every profession there is in this great country of ours. And as the baby boomers retire in droves, Hispanics are entering the work force in a similar fashion. Let's face it: Hispanics are going to shoulder the future growth of our country in just a few years. And as prior immigrants have done before, we are about to impress in the US our fingerprints and in the process we are going to show the world that we still are and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a creative nation. And Hispanics are going to be in the driver’s seat. Mind you, not alone, but definitely in the driver's seat.
As I mentioned above, Hispanics are going to impress in the US our fingerprints. We are going to "touch" all aspects of life and infuse them with our creative essence. In fact today Hispanics are performing incredibly well by finding solutions to problems creatively. There are Hispanics working in government trying to solve issues that will affect America for the next few decades, Hispanics are working on creating the next "big thing" in the areas of new materials, digital media, ways of learning, green living, etc. Hispanics are also creating fresh new art, solving business problems and finding new medicines and new ways to fight and win the war on Cancer, HIV, Diabetes, Heart disease, etc.
To me and many others the 21st Century is the "Hispanic Century" and I in particular don't call it so to make us feel superior to others but more as a wakeup call to all of us to realize the tremendous responsibility that lays square on our shoulders and the great expectations that all of us have as a nation, irrespective of ethnicity and race, from all of those, yes, you included, who are working to ensure that this country remains the great, creative, entrepreneurial, empowering country our fathers and grandfathers strove so hard to get to.
So let’s show the world how creative Hispanics are. Let’s create new businesses, help create new jobs, new careers, new opportunities for all.
I would love to hear from the readers what are each of you doing in the area of creativity: whether solving a great engineering issue or creating a new painting, searching for the cure of a major illness or writing the next blockbuster movie. I realize there are lots of confidentiality issues to be concerned with but you don’t have to let us know the specifics. I just want to know how are Hispanics using our “DNA level” creativity to improve the companies we work on, the US and hopefully the world at large.

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