Friday, November 30, 2007

Pew Hispanic releases new study: Latinos learn English - duh!

San Francisco Chronicle reports on the Pew Study.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/30/MNJTTLDL1.DTL&type=printable
"The first generation speaks mainly Spanish and doesn't speak English very well. The second generation speaks English very well but holds onto its Spanish. And by the third generation and beyond, English is universal and pervasive, and Spanish fades into the background."
The few Pew report can be found at this link:
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/82.pdf

Maybe this will stop all the racist depictions of Latinos not able to speak English. But I doubt it.

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