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- GRAPEVINE, Page 25Funny, You Don't Look Spanish
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- Ethnicity is in at the San Francisco fire department these
- days. The reason: fears that a program to promote minorities
- will hold back those classified as Caucasian. City officials
- report a wave of petitioners claiming long-lost ethnic
- identities. One 16-year veteran, previously listed as Italian,
- documented Spanish ancestry to qualify as Hispanic. Some
- minority fire fighters, meanwhile, are complaining that the
- bureaucracy has changed their classifications to "white." San
- Francisco's civil service commission says it will consider
- publicizing ethnic classifications so employees can challenge
- colleagues suspected of making shady heritage claims.
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