I thought, whoa-since when are we Latinos an ungrateful people? Well, I was polite and simply asked him to explain to me why he had this perception of our people. He said, "At Thanksgiving this year I gave all my men turkeys and they just didn't seem to appreciate it." I asked him if there were other instances of ungratefulness on the part of his employees. He said no.
So, other than the fact that he was making a very broad assumption regarding the "gratefulness" of our people based on an isolated incident, let's say this guy had a point. I mean, after all, he was giving something to his people that obviously held some emotional value to him. We're talking about Thanksgiving here!