Bicultural Latinos like the author sometimes feel that they don’t belong anywhere and sometimes they are shamed for their imperfect Spanish, but now they are...
Sábado GiganteWe accomplished our parents’ goals, graduating from high school and college, with one of my sisters earning her master’s degree.All of our adult lives we have lived in the U.S. and visited Mexico for vacation. Every morning we say “Buenos días” to our parents. We love to havefor breakfast on Sundays. Last year we sang our hearts out at the Coldplay concert at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaking less or more Spanish should not be a reason not to be considered to belong to a culture you live and love. We hybrid Hispanics under the “last year by Pew Research, 75% said they were able to carry on a conversation in Spanish pretty well or very well. Good news, right? That same study said 24% of Latino adults say they can only carry on a conversation in Spanish a little or not at all. And fluency declines by generation.
It also states that 4 in 10 Hispanic adults say they hear other Hispanics make jokes, extremely often, about fellow Hispanics who do not speak Spanish or don’t speak it well.“We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It’s exhausting!” Quintanilla says inThere are many reasons why parents choose not to teach their children Spanish. It can be because they want them to adjust to their life in the U.S. quickly.
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