Shouldn’t the community challenge the myth that we are all Spanish speakers?
: The future continues to be more and more English-dominant.
Among the Latinos who identify as third-generation or higher, 65% said “they cannot carry on a conversation well in Spanish,” and 54% of all English-dominant Latinos reported that they “have been shamed because of it,”There is a wide gap between the Spanish- and English-dominant Latinos on the role of language in determining one’s identity.
Half of Latinos tell us that they’ve been made to feel bad about not speaking Spanish at some point.”“Half of Latinos tell us that they’ve been made to feel bad about not speaking Spanish at some point. What that usually translates to is they’re either being shamed for losing a part of their culture and not being aware of their culture,” Mark Hugo Lopez, a co-author of the Pew study and the organization’s director of race and ethnicity research, said this week in a phone interview.
“There is sort of a sense that to be Latino, you have to be a Spanish speaker, and you might encounter that from, say, folks from Latin America who come to visit the U.S. and express shock or perhaps dismay that somebody who is Latino clearly doesn’t speak Spanish,” Lopez added. English is only growing more commonplace among Latinos in the U.S.; English proficiency for Latinos ages 5 and olderfrom 59% in 2000 to 72% in 2022. This means that a rise in Spanish-language purism is perhaps the worst thing that could happen to the U.S. Latino community as it continues to make a bigger mark on the American experience. An example of this arrogant attitude
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