Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees

A Note on theNomenclature

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.

Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude

Since time immemorial people have tried to understand the universe in which they live. This involves, first, giving names to things, and, second, grouping things to make sense of relationships. At times this ...