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Many Latinos may be feeling wooed the wrong way these days. “Looking to tap the wealth of U.S. Latinos, CNN is planning to introduce a Spanish-language programming service tailored for broadcast TV stations next year. The service, CNN Latino, is being designed as an eight-hour programming block featuring news, documentaries, talk shows and lifestyle programming. Read More
And the Democrats fire back. From Fox News Latino: “Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress on Wednesday presented the nine principles that should guide comprehensive immigration reform they say will contribute to the economic recovery. During a press conference in the Capitol, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus insisted that immigration reform is cannot Read More
Many people have something to say about Spanglish, whether positive or negative, but it is sometimes all too easy to forget that it is a two-way street, and that Spanish, and the indigenous languages of the Americas, have given a lot of words to the English language. There are food-related words via Nahuatl: avocado (incidentally the Read More
Despite today’s popular belief that America is and has always been an English-first nation, foreign languages have played an integral role in America’s cultural heritage. When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803, most of the inhabitants spoke Spanish or French (a byproduct of centuries of Spanish and French colonial rule). Nearly half Read More