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"Janithor" |
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13 Sep 2006 12:19:47 AM |
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Immigration no threat to English use in U.S.: study |
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Granted, this is from Reuters, but this is exactly what I have observed
in the real world. The children, even those born in Mexico, all speak
English primarily. Many of these children can't even speak Spanish, or
speak very limited Spanish.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. citizens concerned that Latino immigrants will
have them singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish can rest easy,
according to an academic study published on Wednesday.
A report in the Population and Development Review found that far from
threatening the dominance of English, most Latin American immigrants to
the United States lose their ability to speak Spanish over the course of
a few generations.
The study by sociologists Frank Bean and Ruben Rumbaut of the University
of California, Irvine, and Douglas Massey from Princeton, drew on two
surveys investigating adaptation by immigrant communities in California
and south Florida.
It concluded that by the third generation, most descendants of
immigrants are "linguistically dead" in their mother tongue.
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| User: "Thomas Dehn" |
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| Title: Re: Immigration no threat to English use in U.S.: study |
15 Sep 2006 12:35:27 AM |
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"Janithor" <Janithor@comcast.net> wrote:
Granted, this is from Reuters, but this is exactly what I have observed
in the real world. The children, even those born in Mexico, all speak
English primarily. Many of these children can't even speak Spanish, or
speak very limited Spanish.
Warning: meaningless statistic detected.
The situation has changed a lot with satellite TV, and other items of globalization.
Thomas
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: Immigration no threat to English use in U.S.: study |
14 Sep 2006 11:06:31 PM |
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Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net> wrote:
PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. citizens concerned that Latino immigrants will
have them singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish can rest easy,
according to an academic study published on Wednesday.
It's not the kids that scare me, not even the illegals'
kids, it's the politicians. Ours (.us) and theirs (.mx)
Well, sometimes kids can scare me. One recurrent
situation that is so politically incorrect as to
be totally invisible is Afro-American (or black)
vs Mexicans, I don't think this are always gangs.
The best answer to the multiculturalists promotion
of the non-English school fiasco: "Multilingualism
is a blessing for individuals, a curse for a nation."
I can't remember the source, for which I apologize.
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Breaking news: http://lazerbrody.typepad.com July 24/25 especially
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: Immigration no threat to English use in U.S.: study |
15 Sep 2006 01:37:31 AM |
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:06:31 GMT, Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, sometimes kids can scare me. One recurrent
situation that is so politically incorrect as to
be totally invisible is Afro-American (or black)
vs Mexicans, I don't think this are always gangs.
I've noticed that all of my life. Many Mexicans in America seem to hate
black people. It always confused me because they seemed to share many of
the same problems of minority status.
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