In California and New York small partners, she must have felt around Hispanic and Spanish everywhere. Subway, bus rerouting weekend, there are two signs in English and Spanish; the goods ordered on Amazon came, brochures in English, Spanish duplicate; turn on the TV, inattentive change to the Spanish channels, and the English Channel have teach you say the Spanish program. In the end why Spanish is so popular in the United States? Also a large number of ethnic Chinese in California and New York, why the Chinese do not like this place Spanish it? Xiaobian take you to find out.
Status Spanish
In the United States the official definition, the Commission refers to the Hispanic people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America and other Spanish regions of their descendants. In 2010, the Hispanic population in the United States for the first time more than urban blacks, the largest minority in the United States, in every six Americans, there is a Hispanic. According to the 2010 census, the United States now fifty million people say in Spanish, accounting for 16% of the total population.
Prevalence of Spanish
A few years ago a friend recently left New York to meet sigh, have to learn Spanish, and New York have been surrounded by Spanish!
The same thing also happened in New York and California are dozens of neighborhoods, and the entire Florida, Texas and California.
Friend, then some exaggeration, but not unreasonable. In fact, every body in California or New York, people can truly feel the Spanish everywhere. Subway, bus rerouting weekend, there are two signs in English and Spanish; the goods ordered on Amazon came, brochures in English, Spanish duplicate; turn on the TV, inattentive change to the Spanish channels, and the English Channel have teach you the program of Spanish;
Fill in personal information form, there is always a bar to ask you are Hispanic or non-Hispanic, as if the world only two people;
Presidential election, Hispanic voters fight is in full swing to win, Miami's Cubans even proudly declared, when they decided the election of George W. Bush; that is, to the restaurant, wiping the table side dishes are also brown-skinned young man, you say he does not understand Chinese, he said in Spanish.
Spanish in the United States has not only limited to the Latino and Hispanic concentrated area. Many politicians have begun to try to speak Spanish, such as Barack Obama (for votes), and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also in a press conference on the show before. The children in school or to learn Spanish by watching female cartoon series Dora the Explorer.
Popular online now written in Spanish English (Spanglish) blog, bloggers claim that this is not his bad English, but English-only is not in place, need Spanish doping was fun to find a more resonance. BBC Spanish reporters were raised across the United States from coast to coast, making the program from the south and north twice in 2007 and 2008, "do you speak Spanish." English is not the way one says that only Spanish. In Florida, the reporter spent 50 minutes asking 16 people to find a Spanish - speaking people; in Texas, met a reporter went to war in Iraq Hispanic soldier, he can speak native language in the US military as proud.
No wonder the service hotline to play in New York, must have heard, "Press 1 for English, Spanish, press 2." But some people have still expressed dissatisfaction. A T-shirt once impressively wrote: Why English to press 1!
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