Ah letame see now, ah where was I....oh yeh...The Urban Legend about the Air Force Captain that had his name changed to a Hispanic surname to get preference on an SBA loan....That is true I went to school with him in 1980.
I'm sure this happens a lot. A few years ago, there were some news stories about Anglos who wanted to work as news anchors and couldn't get hired, so they changed their last names to Hispanic names. Then and only then did they get hired! Nobody seemed upset about the fact that whites with Anglo surnames were apparently being discriminated against; the scandal was that these Anglos were taking jobs that Hispanics had the "right" to.
Back in the '70s I worked for a company that gave preferences to people with "Spanish surnames" in hiring and promotions. I knew a guy whose last name was Rodriguez, but only because his stepfather was named Rodriguez and had adopted him. The guy was not "Hispanic" at all, but because his name was Rodriguez, he benefited at work and fully took advantage of it. Then this same guy would complain about women getting promotions just because they were women!
Go figure. It's a crazy world. I wonder if we'll ever stop this insanity and start judging, hiring, and promoting people on the basis of merit only.
To my knowledge this is not so. Hispanics of today are the descendants of the early Mongoloid (Asian) tribes that crossed the Bearing Straits more than 10 thousand of years ago and spread throughout the Americas. Sure, with the Spanish conquest of Central and South America there is a Caucasian element among most Hispanics but it is not dominant.