Unshocking Revelations: Mose Secon Yenerashun Peepuls In Dis Cowntree Espeek Ingleesh
30 November 2007, 11:15 AM. By Alex Alvarez
A new study shows that second generation Latinos in the U.S. tend to speak more and better English than their first generation parents. Like, duh! Beesh, we know we speak English so good:
The classic pattern, reported by the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based nonprofit research group, partially counters concerns raised in immigration debates that Hispanics in the United States will cluster in Spanish-speaking enclaves rather than assimilate and learn English, as previous immigrant groups have done.
We don’t need each other. We’ve got TV. But wait just one second before you break out a piñata and call your abuelo a douchebag while he laughs and nods in blissful ignorance. There’s a catch:
The study found, however, that Hispanics of Mexican origin — who predominate in the largest U.S. immigrant influx in a century — are the slowest to adopt English in succeeding generations.
The study also offered no estimate of how long assimilation might take.
These Mexicans, man. Can’t live with them, can’t talk to them, can’t leave them alone in the house with six cases of Tecate and a funnel.
English dominates in U.S. Hispanics’ 2nd generation [The Miami Herald]
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Where are all the commenters? Must be clustered in a Spanish speaking enclave somewhere.
@el joto: No…the ingleesh speaking brownies are all out working for shitty wages to send beer money back to our tios and tias left behind. Or at least pretending to be working when we’re looking at a loop of that fucked up Hitler thing.
This post should be filed under: “Unshocking Revelation”.
@ pocho guey: Look at you, so full of good ideas. I will save you a 40 and a space on the futon.
@dijo Alex: Word. I’ll let you know when I’m making my way to NYC.
BTW, you should read “The New York Times take on this story”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/us/30immig.html The title explains it all. It should just read: “White America schocked that Mexican-American (read: Brown) kids are literate.” Ooooh…Big discovery!
Foundation investigators saying what most American-born Latinos already knew for themselves. Well, at least they bothered asking, right?
Sit the old timers down in front of the computer and they can practice English and chat with the fam down south on Livemocha.com. Pretty cool site to learn any language and talk with people all over the world! Free
who takes these surveys?!?!
No, I think the real catch to this (a sad one) is that the second, third ..etc generations lose their ability to speak Spanish. My Spanish is terrible and I tend to get teased because I apparently have a funny accent. I think my vocabulary is at a jr high level. I get by but its hard to not get stuck mid sentence because I don’t know how to say something. Hell I’ve even met a few people who don’t speak any Spanish at all (talking but Latinos and Hispanics obviously)
A shame, but this is to be expected when you are born here; your schooling is in English, your T.V. shows are in English (you learn when you’re young and having nothing but news,gossip and novelas to watch on spanish tv doesn’t help get the youngsters attention), your friends all speak English…. it is an inevitability.
Spanish speaking clusters? Not an issue.
@V: Bien dicho.