"95%... spoke Spanish at home; [95%? They’re
IMMIGRANTS! So OK!] 73.6% of these did not
speak English very well; and 43% of the Mexican
foreign-born..." [‘Mexican foreign-born’? What is
that? I guess I was correct. You CAN be U.S. born
and still be called ‘Mexican’. A Mexican should be
born in Mexico so a Mexican-foreign-born is born...
outside Mexico?]
Mexican-foreign-born... were “linguistically isolated.
An earlier study in Los Angeles found different
results for the U.S.-born-second generation.” [My
theory is proven! A U.S.-born-second-generation
what? Well, a U.S.-born second-generation-
Mexican.]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Side bar Reminds me of a Dr. Seuss book: What
do you call tweetle beetles that battle with their
paddles in a puddle and the puddle’s in a bottle? A
tweetle-beetle-bottled-paddle-battle!
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
“Just 11.6% spoke only Spanish or more Spanish
than English, [Is that IT? What is the problem???] In
the same study, more than 90% of the U.S.-born
people of Mexican origin..." [Hey! I like that! ‘Of
Mexican origin’ sounds better than second-
generation-Mexican-American-of-foreign-born-
Mexican-parents-who-spoke-English-less-than-
‘very well’]. 90% of U.S.-born people of Mexican
origin spoke English fluently. [90%?! OK really. If his
gripe is that the Mexicans don’t speak English he
needed not to put these stats in at all!]
One more stat: “English language use and fluency
for first- and second-generation Mexicans thus
seem to follow the pattern common to past
immigrants.” What exactly is the problem if
Mexicans are following the same pattern?
He almost comes clean. “If the second generation
does not reject Spanish outright, the third generation
is also likely to be bilingual, and fluency in both
languages is likely to become institutionalized in the
Mexican-American community.”
There you have it! Huntington does not want
bilingualism. It has nothing to do with that the U.S. will
‘change to its peril’! It has to do with Mexicans
knowing TWO languages! Do they think they are
better than us? Meanwhile, Anglo-Saxons send their
kids to school to learn Spanish.
He complains, sounds more like irritating whining
that, “Second- or third-generation Mexican
Americans who were brought up speaking only
English have learned Spanish as adults and are
encouraging their children to become fluent in it.”
Now that he is picking up speed, as we in Spanish
say – ahora tiene alas. His message is ever more
lucid.
It seems he realizes at this point that he is sounding
a bit trite, perhaps even ignorant, on the globalization
of the world today. “A persuasive case can be made
that, in a shrinking world, all Americans should know
at least one important foreign language—Chinese,
Japanese, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, French,
German, or Spanish—so as to understand a foreign
culture and communicate with its people.”
But alas! He has ‘wings’ now, so he dares to sound
even more ignorant. “It is quite different to argue that
Americans should know a non-English language in
order to communicate with their fellow citizens.”
Translation: It’s OK to learn Spanish, if one is
planning a short stay in Spain. But to learn Spanish
to converse with a Mexican! I shan’t!
IMMIGRANTS! So OK!] 73.6% of these did not
speak English very well; and 43% of the Mexican
foreign-born..." [‘Mexican foreign-born’? What is
that? I guess I was correct. You CAN be U.S. born
and still be called ‘Mexican’. A Mexican should be
born in Mexico so a Mexican-foreign-born is born...
outside Mexico?]
Mexican-foreign-born... were “linguistically isolated.
An earlier study in Los Angeles found different
results for the U.S.-born-second generation.” [My
theory is proven! A U.S.-born-second-generation
what? Well, a U.S.-born second-generation-
Mexican.]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Side bar Reminds me of a Dr. Seuss book: What
do you call tweetle beetles that battle with their
paddles in a puddle and the puddle’s in a bottle? A
tweetle-beetle-bottled-paddle-battle!
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
“Just 11.6% spoke only Spanish or more Spanish
than English, [Is that IT? What is the problem???] In
the same study, more than 90% of the U.S.-born
people of Mexican origin..." [Hey! I like that! ‘Of
Mexican origin’ sounds better than second-
generation-Mexican-American-of-foreign-born-
Mexican-parents-who-spoke-English-less-than-
‘very well’]. 90% of U.S.-born people of Mexican
origin spoke English fluently. [90%?! OK really. If his
gripe is that the Mexicans don’t speak English he
needed not to put these stats in at all!]
One more stat: “English language use and fluency
for first- and second-generation Mexicans thus
seem to follow the pattern common to past
immigrants.” What exactly is the problem if
Mexicans are following the same pattern?
He almost comes clean. “If the second generation
does not reject Spanish outright, the third generation
is also likely to be bilingual, and fluency in both
languages is likely to become institutionalized in the
Mexican-American community.”
There you have it! Huntington does not want
bilingualism. It has nothing to do with that the U.S. will
‘change to its peril’! It has to do with Mexicans
knowing TWO languages! Do they think they are
better than us? Meanwhile, Anglo-Saxons send their
kids to school to learn Spanish.
He complains, sounds more like irritating whining
that, “Second- or third-generation Mexican
Americans who were brought up speaking only
English have learned Spanish as adults and are
encouraging their children to become fluent in it.”
Now that he is picking up speed, as we in Spanish
say – ahora tiene alas. His message is ever more
lucid.
It seems he realizes at this point that he is sounding
a bit trite, perhaps even ignorant, on the globalization
of the world today. “A persuasive case can be made
that, in a shrinking world, all Americans should know
at least one important foreign language—Chinese,
Japanese, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, French,
German, or Spanish—so as to understand a foreign
culture and communicate with its people.”
But alas! He has ‘wings’ now, so he dares to sound
even more ignorant. “It is quite different to argue that
Americans should know a non-English language in
order to communicate with their fellow citizens.”
Translation: It’s OK to learn Spanish, if one is
planning a short stay in Spain. But to learn Spanish
to converse with a Mexican! I shan’t!
He then speaks about bilingual education which is
controversial as it is. It is not a way to teach Spanish
as most believe. It teaches the content of the subject
matter- let’s say Science- in the foreign language
until English is learned.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Side Bar When you are learning a foreign language
do you learn: Dinner is on the table. or: The
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. ?! Hence
the reason for Bilingual Ed.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
His highly scientific data says, “Families that spoke
only Spanish had average incomes of $18,000;
English-only families... $32,000; and bilingual
families... more than $50,000.”
He doesn't assume it's because they are more
educated. Either way, more money is good, no? Not
exactly. He pits us against our next of kin- the
African-Americans, “For the first time in U.S. history,
increasing numbers of Americans (particularly
black Americans) will not be able to receive the jobs
or the pay they would otherwise receive because
they can speak to their fellow citizens only in
English.”
Huntington again names Americans, much like in a
schoolyard when the snot-nosed kid starts naming
"all his boys" in case someone was even thinking of
picking on him. “Despite the opposition of large
majorities of Americans, Spanish is joining the
language of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the
Roosevelts, and the Kennedys as the language of
the U.S.”
The language of Washington is not the same English
we use today. Linguistics 101 teaches that language
is ever changing. That is the essence, dare I say,
beauty, of language.
He moves on to “Hispanization”. Is that a word from
the language of Washington and the rest of our
forefathers? He talks of a study where a few
Mexican-American children defined themselves as
“American”. Can you blame them? Everywhere we
go we are Hispanic or Latino or "3rd generation,
great-grandchildren-of-non-English-speaking-
immigrants”. If you are “white-Hispanic", you have to
fill the Census form “Hispanic” because it says
“White, not of Hispanic decent”. American society
teaches us that we are not to call ourselves
American. The children were just showing what they
are taught.
Hispanization has begun, he is saying, as with the
Cubans in Miami. The section: Bienvenido a Miami,
says the Cubans created “an enclave city with its
own culture and economy, in which assimilation and
Americanization were unnecessary and in some
measure undesired.”
His stats paint a wealthy, self-sufficient, self-reliant,
powerful Hispanic City. “Payrolls in Miami-Dade
County tripled between 1970 and 1995.” Tripled!
How does that negatively impact “Anglos”? He says,
Anglos were discriminated and had no choice but to
leave. “The Cuban and Hispanic dominance of
Miami left Anglos (as well as blacks) as outside
minorities... Unable to communicate with
government bureaucrats and discriminated against
by store clerks, the Anglos came to realize,... “My
God, this is what it's like to be the minority.” The
Anglos had three choices. They could accept their
subordinate and outsider position. They could
attempt to... assimilate... “acculturation in reverse,” ...
Or they could leave Miami, and between 1983 and
1993, about 140,000 did just that, their exodus
reflected in a popular bumper sticker: “Will the last
American to leave Miami, please bring the flag.”
controversial as it is. It is not a way to teach Spanish
as most believe. It teaches the content of the subject
matter- let’s say Science- in the foreign language
until English is learned.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Side Bar When you are learning a foreign language
do you learn: Dinner is on the table. or: The
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. ?! Hence
the reason for Bilingual Ed.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
His highly scientific data says, “Families that spoke
only Spanish had average incomes of $18,000;
English-only families... $32,000; and bilingual
families... more than $50,000.”
He doesn't assume it's because they are more
educated. Either way, more money is good, no? Not
exactly. He pits us against our next of kin- the
African-Americans, “For the first time in U.S. history,
increasing numbers of Americans (particularly
black Americans) will not be able to receive the jobs
or the pay they would otherwise receive because
they can speak to their fellow citizens only in
English.”
Huntington again names Americans, much like in a
schoolyard when the snot-nosed kid starts naming
"all his boys" in case someone was even thinking of
picking on him. “Despite the opposition of large
majorities of Americans, Spanish is joining the
language of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the
Roosevelts, and the Kennedys as the language of
the U.S.”
The language of Washington is not the same English
we use today. Linguistics 101 teaches that language
is ever changing. That is the essence, dare I say,
beauty, of language.
He moves on to “Hispanization”. Is that a word from
the language of Washington and the rest of our
forefathers? He talks of a study where a few
Mexican-American children defined themselves as
“American”. Can you blame them? Everywhere we
go we are Hispanic or Latino or "3rd generation,
great-grandchildren-of-non-English-speaking-
immigrants”. If you are “white-Hispanic", you have to
fill the Census form “Hispanic” because it says
“White, not of Hispanic decent”. American society
teaches us that we are not to call ourselves
American. The children were just showing what they
are taught.
Hispanization has begun, he is saying, as with the
Cubans in Miami. The section: Bienvenido a Miami,
says the Cubans created “an enclave city with its
own culture and economy, in which assimilation and
Americanization were unnecessary and in some
measure undesired.”
His stats paint a wealthy, self-sufficient, self-reliant,
powerful Hispanic City. “Payrolls in Miami-Dade
County tripled between 1970 and 1995.” Tripled!
How does that negatively impact “Anglos”? He says,
Anglos were discriminated and had no choice but to
leave. “The Cuban and Hispanic dominance of
Miami left Anglos (as well as blacks) as outside
minorities... Unable to communicate with
government bureaucrats and discriminated against
by store clerks, the Anglos came to realize,... “My
God, this is what it's like to be the minority.” The
Anglos had three choices. They could accept their
subordinate and outsider position. They could
attempt to... assimilate... “acculturation in reverse,” ...
Or they could leave Miami, and between 1983 and
1993, about 140,000 did just that, their exodus
reflected in a popular bumper sticker: “Will the last
American to leave Miami, please bring the flag.”
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