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Dr. Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, Scholar in Residents at Western New Mexico University, writes about the Linguistic Phenomenon known as Spanglish. His insights and discussion have actually shown me a new way of seeing Spanglish and it’s uses/meanings. Perhaps the negative stereotypes associated with Spanglish has been unfairly earned. Read on, and maybe he’ll change your views too:

From: http://lae.greenwood.com

Both American and Mexican elitists decry the presence and use of Spanglish along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, calling it bad English and bad Spanish – substandard and ungrammatical.

But Spanglish does not emerge just from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It emerges where there are communities of Spanish-speaking Hispanics in the United States from any Spanish-speaking country. Cubans in Miami speak Spanglish. Puerto Ricans in New York and Chicago speak Spanglish. Dominicans in D.C. speak Spanglish. Latinos everywhere in the
United States speak Spanglish to varying degrees.

…read full articles of "Spanglish"

A really great story, well written and informative.  It’s rare that I actually read an article from start to finish, but this one actually caught my interest. Well written and informitive this article depicts the struggles that our people must deal with on a daily basis.  Read it, maybe you’ll learn something.. I did.

From: The Metro Times Detroit:

“If a foreigner who is illegally in the United States breaks their leg and seeks medical care, should the hospital treat them?”

Olga Gonzalez says she clearly remembers the debate that question generated in a social studies class during her junior year at University Liggett School. She listened in horror as one of her classmates gave his opinion.

“Let them die,” he said. “They don’t deserve to be here.”

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