Southern Oregon University Spanish Students Attitudes Toward Bilingualism March 13‚ 2014 Majerle Reeves and Luis Ayala Field Assignment Final Draft The United States has become the home to a multicultural society where‚ according to Lopez and Gonzalez-Barrera (2013)‚ more than 37 million people of ages 5 and older speak Spanish‚ making it the second most spoken language in the United States. Attitudes towards bilingualism vary among different individuals‚ while some believe
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The U.S. Census Bureau defines Hispanic as "a person of Cuban‚ Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ South or Central American‚ or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race". The term Hispanic is a blanket term to cover large very different cultures that have little in common. In the United States‚ the Hispanic culture ranks individuals against each other to show how connected they are to their origins. Albert Einstein’s quote‚ "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better
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of all‚ she mentioned that she was born in the USA but her family moved to Dominican Republic and stayed there for almost 10 years. Therefore‚ the only language that she knew in that time was Spanish. Her aunts and uncle used to correct kids in Spanish to educate them but she said that she got their bad Spanish. In addition‚ her parents used to speak in English if they did not want their kids to understand them. For example‚ when they want to speak about a something important or someone divorcing or
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Hispanic American Diversity Hispanic Americans cultural diversity is emulated in the various groups as well as in the origins of the individual cultures. Hispanic cultures have been swayed to different degrees by many traditions. Unification attempts of Hispanic Americans have often been tense among the various Hispanic American subgroups. Mexican Americans‚ Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans have very little in common. Most Hispanic Americans identify with other
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you know Spanish- our verb conjugations. Basically‚ I was mainly graded on what I knew and how I delivered via my homework assignments and exams. This would be practiced in every single Spanish class outside of Cohen’s‚ which was beneficial. Senor Cohen was your typical "White Guy‚" but he KNEW Spanish. If you saw him‚ you wouldn’t believe it either. He was also a very difficult teacher too‚ nothing in his class came easy and it moved fast. Day 2 of Spanish‚ we presented the Spanish alphabet
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was born into a Spanish speaking family but when they moved to American when she was three‚ her and her family stopped speaking English. They way she looked at it was back then‚ speaking Spanish meant all you could do was wait tables and clean hotel rooms and were constantly being looked down on and criticized. Because of this Barrientos enjoyed her Americanized self and that she often acted as to not know any Spanish to feel superior. She believed that by staying away from Spanish‚ that stereotypes
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settlements were made by the Spanish natives and they were able to establish communities. They called the natives indios and converted their religion to Roman Catholic. They created political‚ economic and social systems in the archipelago that truly made a mark in the cultural evolution of the natives. As the Spaniards rule over the archipelago‚ they demonstrated practices of administering the colony to maintain their power. Within the long duration of colonizing the Philippines‚ Spanish influences are evident
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the process of separating away from the Catholic Church was the “expulsion of the Jesuit order form the Spanish Empire in 1767.” Consequently‚ the detachment from the Catholic Church also led to the restriction and prohibiting of religious celebrations among the people of Mexico‚ who before‚ had days in which they venerated saints of the church. As mention by Yanna Yannakakis‚ “they [Spanish crown] prohibited the elaborate fiestas that formed part of the cult of saints.” With this change in progress
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a result of the many reforms of the enlightenment. But the question that comes up is how these reforms contributed to the prosperity of each nation? To answer to the question‚ in this paper it will be analyzed how the political movements for the Spanish and British Empires during the colonial period differed. It will be first considered the antecedents for each nation and from that point it will exposed the major political events that happened in both Empires. And inside these antecedents‚ it will
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but spoke mostly Spanish. She did not speak true Spanish but a different form of Spanish called “Chicano Spanish”. She was living in the most English speaking place on this planet‚ but she was from Mexican decent. Spanish in the United States was rare during this time‚ but she spoke a form of Spanish. She describes the difficulty of changing to Chicano Spanish. Chicano Spanish also varies from Texas to Arizona to California. It is considered a poor form of Spanish. “Spanish for the Uneducated”
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