Spanish Official Language

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Americans must to learn about Spanish and how that language is rise in their country. Spanish must to be recognized by Americans in the U.S, nowadays Spanish have the same importance as English more than 37 million speakers, Spanish is by far the most spoken non-English language in the U.S, more over it has become a part of many aspects of life in the U.S. Other important aspect in the lack of knowledge is how teachers in the U.S explain the Spanish to new generations. The reporter, Roque Planas, said: “Anyone who’s ever enrolled in a Spanish class knows that schools generally refer to it as a foreign language.” The big question, it is a foreign language? Well not at all, many countries have name in Spanish like: Nevada, Colorado, Los Angeles, …show more content…

According to Roque Planas, though state across the nation has adopted legislation establishing English as their official language, no such legislation has been adopted on a federal level. That’s way Americans need to know more about Spanish and learn about English too. If the English is not the official language they started to see Spanish with other perspective. 28 states have declared English the official language of their local governments, most of which have done so within the last few decades as the “English Only” movement has gained steam. However, due to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if those states want to receive federal funds or support, any public entity in the state that receives federal funds must provide all vital documents in every single language that any client of that agency speaks. The future of Spanish is brillant in accordance with a 2011 paper by U.S. Census Bureau Demographers Jennifer Ortman and Hyon B. Shin, the statistics projected the number of Spanish speakers is to rise through 2020 to anywhere between 39 million and 43 million, depending on the assumption one makes about immigration. Most of these Spanish speakers will be Hispanic, with Ortman and Shin projecting between 37.5 million and 41 million Hispanic Spanish speakers by …show more content…

(Weinreich, 1953); As Cesar Carhuachin said “Language discrimination is the mirror of stereotypes and prejudices” (Carhuachin, 2013, p. 19 and 23) Where there are social conflicts, and in particular battles to claim collective identities, there will certainly be a war of words, a struggle to control the vocabulary that tells us who belongs to which group and which categories to determine the identity of each group. (Azaïs, 2005, p. 13) The concept of discrimination is ordinarily the rejection toward other groups which does not look like the majority. The discrimination it can be due to language and the facts of that are because they do not speak the language of the country in which they live, they have a foreign mother tongue or they have a different accent to the rest of people in the country. The most prejudiced are the immigrants; they are often victims of this kind of discrimination, consequently if the rejection starts just to language, it will end in rejection to people who speaks Spanish. (Azaïs, 2005). And all this things started for the

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