Latina member of council claps back with pride after having her accent mocked Nicole Acevedo © 2019 The Washington Post Rockville, MD - January 15: Nancy Navarro, president of the Montgomery County Council, listens during a hearing in Rockville, Md., on January 15, 2019. (Photo by Cheryl Diaz Meyer for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Nancy Navarro of the Montgomery County Council in Maryland is urging Latino immigrants with a Spanish accent to wear it with pride and keep moving forward, after two people made fun of her accent during a virtual public hearing this week.
Navarro, an immigrant from Venezuela and the only woman on the council, was speaking Tuesday about issues pertaining to the county s unequal access to Covid-19 vaccinations for Latino and Black communities when two people could be heard mocking the way she pronounced certain words, according to WZDC, the local TV news station from NBC s sister network Telemundo in Washington, D.C.
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They become dangerous tools : the dark side of personality tests Lisa Wong Macabasco
Scrolling dating apps in 2015, Tim Travers Hawkins didn’t know who his type was. He didn’t even know
what a type was. Hawkins, a British film-maker then new to New York, “noticed something that was very different to people’s profiles in the UK and that was the use of these four letters,” he said to the Guardian. Curious, he looked it up. “I was like, ‘Huh, that’s different’.”
The four letters issue from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the world’s most well-known personality quiz, which categorizes everyone into 16 distinct types gleaned from four binaries: people are either introverted or extroverted, sensing (relying on evidence from one’s senses) or intuitive, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving.
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