SPEAKHISPANIC.COM

Elianne Ramos
www.speakhispanic.com

They say a blog is a labor of love, and boy, whoever said that wasn’t kidding. The speakhispanic blog is a testament to that truth, born out of a desire to honor my culture, the Hispanic culture. Mine was a longing, so to speak, to discuss the things that are both real and un-real, the things that touch banality yet are somehow extraordinary about us, as a non-homogeneous ethnic group.


Living in the United States, we somehow forget there are things that unite us, the roots to our day-to-day behavior, the things that make us strong, proud… alive. And sometimes, by not standing up and talking, by not taking pride in our essential nature, on who we are, on our “Hispanic-ness/Latin-ness” or however else we prefer to call it, we allow other people to create one for us. Unfortunately, some of those people don’t always have the best intentions and even when they do, those intentions may be somehow misdirected.


As Socrates very wisely said: “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance”. So, here I am, a woman on a mission to shatter the many myths and false assumptions people make about the Hispanic market, especially when trying to communicate to us. Through this blog, I hope to help people to better understand who we are, the things we believe in, the things that make us Hispanics/Latinos/Human. You’ll read about the beliefs, superstitions and cultural tidbits, about our daily struggles in the wonderful yet sometimes crazy path through this, our adoptive country.


Speakhispanic.com is an open space dedicated to all of those who, like me, believe that the more we understand other cultures – and the more other cultures understand us — the better human beings we can become.

ABOUT ELIANNE RAMOS

Elianne has over 13 years of Copywriting, Editing, Public Speaking and TV Commercial Production experience. She has developed communications campaigns for Procter and Gamble, Panasonic, SlimFast and HSBC Bank, among others. As a Hispanic Communications Consultant, she partners with companies interested in targeting Hispanics. She’s also a frequent speaker at international marketing conferences.


For her views on the Hispanic market, visit: www.speakhispanic.com. Her online portfolio is at www.elianneramos.com. She can be reached at: eramos@elianneramos.com.