Priscilla Blossom, a Nicaraguan- and Mexican-American, grew up speaking Spanish but felt pressured to assimilate and would sometimes only communicate in English. Now as a mom, she worries that her son ...
The creator approaches random individuals in a public place and first asks them which language they speak, and that question is now associated with the prank and has become a meme in and of itself.
Spanish is often framed as both essential and deeply rooted in Miami, a necessity to “get by” living in the 305. In certain ways, it is. In other ways it is not, says FIU sociolinguist Phillip Carter.
About half of U.S. Latinos who don’t speak Spanish well say they have been shamed by other Latinos for it, a Pew Research Center survey has found, though 75% of all Latinos say they can speak the ...
While two-thirds of U.S. Latinos say they can read a newspaper or book in Spanish at least pretty well, just 21% say they mostly consume news in Spanish. Just over half of Hispanics (54%) report ...