Regardless of the propaganda, Latino immigrants are becoming English dominate and most become English only as the generation increase. See the story. By 3rd generation only 17% of Mex-Americans speak spanish and ONLY 5% speak Spanish in the 4th generations.
As the illegal immigration fight moves nowhere, I am glad to know the fear of by a country of two languages where the sides speak different languages appears not to be an issue.
There are only good and valid reasons to fight illegal immigration and secure the border, but I am again glad that losing our language isn't one of them.
As the illegal immigration fight moves nowhere, I am glad to know the fear of by a country of two languages where the sides speak different languages appears not to be an issue.
There are only good and valid reasons to fight illegal immigration and secure the border, but I am again glad that losing our language isn't one of them.
Sorry, I don't speak Spanish: Hispanics deal with the loss of Spanish fluency | Minero Magazine
The results of The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study conveyed that 17 percent of third-generation Mexican-Americans speak Spanish, while 5 percent of the fourth generation speaks Spanish. Campbell describes the absence of a mother language in upcoming generations as a form of assimilation. By and large in the United States, it is the pressure of the American culture that forces Mexicans or Latinos to ultimately make English their first language, Campbell says.
He credits the preference of the English language among the youth in El Paso to be inevitable because of the fact that it is all around them. We have to be realisticSpanish is confronted by American popular culture. English is needed in the school systems, in getting a job and in terms of their social identity and their social lives, he says. Students may speak Spanish at home with their family, which is usually the case for second and third generations, but ultimately it begins slanting to English.
English is introduced during the early levels of the American public education system, which plays a role in Spanish fluency loss among young Mexican-Americans. In elementary school programs, Spanish speakers are transitioned from speaking Spanish to speaking English. Matthew Castro, a second-generation Mexican-American, grew up speaking Spanish at home, but at an early age was transitioned to the English language. I grew up speaking Spanish, but probably when I was 6 or 7 years old, I started to pick up English, he says. School was probably the reason why I stopped talking Spanish.