. . . . I actually don't voluntarily listen to reggaeton. Hear me out, I enjoy it (especially in other people's cars), but I am not going out of my way to play it. Regardless, have y'all (if you're Latino) seen the meme of "me rolling into my corporate job" and the bass of the reggaeton is just blasting? When I see people post their own take on it, I'm like  *tired trope*. But actually #Guilty, because anytime I have the corridos blasting as I am scanning my badge into the parking deck (and you do think about it because the dock worker nearby can hear it through the thin windows), I think to myself "the Mexican customers setting up their North Pole scout have no idea that the employee on her way to make sure their toy is passing child safety standards is in her feelings to Junior H's Tres Botellas"

Exhibit A (although I didn't find anything about corporate job - just work in general)

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So I am guilty of it too. Again, I am not special - but growing up as a second generation (definition on that below, as many people would consider me first generation), when I thought of corporate America I thought of white men in suits (not even white women came to my mind). And when I also thought of corporate America - a little older, but still young - I'm like what are all these random jobs that people do that are not doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc. What are the jobs that just fill up all these buildings? I didn't have the example of how you just land, I don't know, Manager of Building Blocks, Wood, Northeastern division. 

So anyways, as Junior H is blasting into the Riverwood building, it's just a reminder that little ole' Mexican me is taking up space (in my purest form). And maybe I am the only one that thinks about this, but if I have a product I love and I know that a little Mexican girl plays a part in it - well I love that even more. Ah I hate being cheesy!! BYE. 

First Gen vs Second Gen according to Harvard:

A person who is a first-generation immigrant is defined as one who is born outside of the United States. 1.5-generation immigrants are individuals who came to the United States as children. Second-generation immigrants are born in the United States but have parents who are born abroad.