Some Latinos face community criticism over Spanish skills

[@bellamama3065]

My kids speak fluent, almost perfect Spanish (live in the US) but I always speak Spanish to them even though I speak fluent English. I think as parents is our decision to pass on that legacy to our children. Many of my Hispanic and Asians friends decided not to do it,, which I find truly sad. It’s like cutting out a part of who our children are.

[@SuperRip7]

They are very people Hispanic parents like that; tiny.

[@RealityHurts923]

Its very sad? Ya it’s sad that this white European language was forced onto our native ancestors after raping and killing them. I doubt you speak the language of our Aztec and Myan ancestors.

[@SuperRip7]

I should have been more clear and less ambiguous. They are not many Hispanic children who know friends, neighbors, or other relatives whom are 18 and older and speak English well, let alone parents. Thus their linguistic isolation is well known and why they are synonymous with ESL. I mean, without social media and KZbin commentary, I would have not believed it. So that's news to me. Spanish is the only major passed down as a first language from generation to generation in the United States. There is virtually know one that is a native speaker of English or learned Spanish later in life. Without external stimuli to check the influence of Spanish, Spanish is giving English a run for its money. I mean, more than 57 millions Spanish speakers can't be wrong.

[@SuperRip7]

This really bites. I responded to a comment above and the person deleted the original comment. So it looks like I am responding to myself.

[@0zbrian]

I know how to speak Spanish but I was always made fun of for being white and because of that everyone always says “oh este wey is a no sabo kid” and “you speak Spanish funny” so yeah I just decided to not speak it but because of that I lost ways to say things in Spanish like my Spanish is fucked

[@HollowHill17]

im sure other minority groups feel same way with their language and culture too

[@danielwetmore7019]

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[@gabrielayers4941]

Yeah, no one speaks Anglo-Saxon anymore...

[@funkonsight]

Latinos/Hispanics literally include many races. Being the majority… watch the video

[@marcelphilliphe5259]

I'm part of such minority and I don't give two @#$%^ about what other non-Spanish speakers think. Hablo espanol con amigos y familia y si alguien tiene algun problema con ello puede venir y decirmelo a la cara, y lo arreglamos rapido. I think it's rotten deep in our own insecurities and fears. Stay strong

[@jaguaregor4258]

@@marcelphilliphe5259 So much passion towards the language of the conquistadors. Sigh.

[@Daniel-z2j2v]

If this guy is using “LatinX” then he needs to stick to English Latinos don’t use that derogatory term

[@christiansoto9755]

I really hate that word. It's so American

[@sanepillow59]

@@christiansoto9755 Estadounidense, not "American"

[@ricardocabrera8344]

mmm, we use it in Spanish speaking countries, with an X with an @, languages evolve, i don't use it, but you can't stigmatize communities that do, that's how language changes, if you don't like it, go speak proto-indo-european or Proto-Uto-Aztecan

[@scrawnyserf9298]

😂😂🤣🤣 hearing those terms as a Spanish speaker sounds like nails on a chalkboard. I hate them, but it cracks me up because it's so stupid lmao!

[@melis6294]

We are Hispanic not Latino, we don't speak Latin we speak Spanish.

[@boardtho]

being multilingual also provides a lot of job opportunities and higher wages 😍

[@poncho828]

Exactly! That's one of the reasons I got a great job right after I graduated college.

[@HazelGreen64]

Not in this economy

[@neondrivercartman3569]

Biden will hook you up with a translater job with the Mexican cartel if you watch his political back.

[@godzillamegatron3590]

I don't support that. This is the USA , speak English. I am Latino , and I not going to learn Chinese if they become the majority in the USA.

[@HazelGreen64]

@@godzillamegatron3590 it’s weird that people are pushing others to learn a language that is not dominate or the official language of this country.

[@iiGODLYWARRIOR]

Most Hispanics born in the 90s weren't taught, so it dies with us. It was our lazy parents' responsibility to teach us Spanish. It kind of sucks because we're stuck with the Chicano accent regardless of if we speak it or not.

[@SuperRip7]

nah

[@elruso2828]

@@SuperRip7 si guey

[@rafangille]

i don’t think most latinos in my generation (gen-z) speak with the chicano accent

[@ahhh9k]

I don’t have a chicano accent and i can speak Spanish pretty good but not 100% perfectly, I learned from listening to my parents speak it but I was never really taught it either

[@SuperRip7]

@@elruso2828 huh.

[@k.a5765]

I work for a preschool and this is an ongoing issue with parents. I have parents who speak Arabic and Spanish and they tell me that their child is refusing to speak their home language. And the parents barely speak any English. So what happens is there’s a disconnect between the parent and the child and it’s super sad. I was born here to Latinos parents and I learned to speak Spanish. In college I perfected my Spanish. I want my children to learn Spanish but I know how hard it is going to be. I remember the shame that felt because my mom did not speak any English. And I remember I spent a year as a teenager barely talking to my mom because I didn’t want to speak Spanish. I got over it and I love my Latino roots and I don’t want my future children to feel the same way but I know how I felt as a child and I’m afraid that they’re going to follow in my footsteps and not like any Spanish

[@ericktwelve11]

@@RiseAwakenedOne you guys go to latin america and Spain, not knowing Spanish and the locals won't force English speaking foreigners to learn the Spanish language but you guys do to us minorities and plus English speaking foreigners segregate themselves from the locals so how comes we can't do it in North America?

[@meriguito01]

Totally agree

[@meriguito01]

@@RiseAwakenedOne you say that because you have no skills to speak other languages

[@urbangirlxpful]

You can try sending them to Spanish courses or camps for children. They are pretty fun.

[@sade62397]

Why doesn’t your mom speak English? Just curious..

[@SendooranSCAR]

If you want to destroy someone culture , make them forgot their language first , everything else is gone after . its really sad

[@dudeman7826]

Calm down the Spanish language isn’t dying out lol

[@hadesinferno2927]

That's called assimilation, Hispanics become Americans and that's good.

[@CarlosHernandez-lt7yu]

Plus it was never their culture to begin with. If you have a strong connection to Spanish culture like I have you will know its literally impossible to dissolve the Spanish roots. They literally spoon feed you Don Quijote and other Spanish customs if you are Cuban. Walk tthrough Hialeah and you will see statues of Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, etc. These people were barely Spanish to begin with.

[@thedarkenigma3834]

Kion la hispanoj faris al la indiĝenaj amerikanoj.

[@justinroyse4271]

Culture isn’t inherently worth preserving.

[@macristo33]

As an American who is the son of an immigrant from Eastern Europe, I learned three foreign languages, including my dad’s which was easy as my dad spoke it a lot growing up (a Latin language). The other two I learned, Spanish and German, gave me a lot of confidence. I am 42 and I started this adventure around age 19. I am not 100% fluent, but I can easily read, speak, and understand every day conversation. I get a lot of satisfaction randomly hearing one of these three foreign languages on the street and then immediately introducing myself to the native speaker. I have even made true friendships. I would encourage anyone to learn a foreign language.

[@Zamiiz]

I can’t tell you how ashamed I was of myself for not knowing Spanish.. I felt like less of a person in some way

[@betterthanyourname2391]

My mom didnt learn fluent spanish til she was in her mid 20s. She told me she learned it by watching the Spanish news because they speak it correctly. Its not slang Spanish. Now me i know little speaking spanish, but i understand it more than i speak it. Lol

[@RaggedyAnt]

I know what you mean I felt the same way through out my life. Even though my parents have an idea they also didn't know well either. Its sad our ancestors had to 'fit in' because of racism. But now alot of us descendants are being effected by not feeling we're enough for our culture. I'm 23 in college and I am finally learning Spanish for my self. And even if I or other Latinos ended up never learning it doesn't make us any less part of our ethnicity.💚 (I also just wanna say in middle school I was also a huge fan of your art Zamiiz. Still am it's good to see your presence again!)

[@bellamama3065]

If you get to save money move for 6 months to a place like Antigua Guatemala. You’ll be fluent in Spanish and will have lots of fun. I have a couple of caucasian friends who did it and love it.

[@Alex-eb6je]

Nah don't feel bad you still got the Hispanic culture either way.

[@AA-wu2fk]

@zamiiz nothing wrong with that,many latinos speak many romance/indigenous languages

[@kingcrimson1916]

I have met folks who are "yo no sabo" but they don't want to learn spanish. And its sad.

[@taylormakes2207]

No it is not.

[@sgp.v]

@@taylormakes2207 yes it is, keep la cultura y la lengua viva. No dejan que el gringo gane

[@frenchcat2910]

@@sgp.v Relax dude there's no grand plan to erase the culture or language, this happens to all immigrant communities around the world.

[@ericktwelve11]

@@sgp.v amen

[@sgp.v]

@@frenchcat2910 cringe

[@LoboMendez1]

I was raised in Texas in the 80s. My mother who was an American citizen, but only spoke Spanish, encouraged me to only speak English, which she could understand perfectly. I learned Enligsh at 4yo and was punished at school up until 1989 for speaking Spanish in school, so I learned English fluently and lost Spanish for many years. I would recover it in my teens and then later perfect it in college and finally in my deportation to Mexico. Now, I speak both English and Spanish, and other languages, fluently and in their own right, but when I speak casually to friends and family, depending on their ability to understand either language, I code switch between the two or at times just use Border Pocho.

[@aprilpinkelton4385]

Wait did I read you were deported?!? If I read that correctly that's bull SH*T! You've lived im the US growing up, you're a US citizen!

[@lorena617]

Arent kids of american citizens? Citizens too?

[@LoboMendez1]

@@aprilpinkelton4385 this is correct, i was one of the birthright citizens deported under Obama...it happened while i was a permanent resident. The details of my immigration story still anger me, but I'm a nutshell: the government wasn't forthcoming with my mother when she reported my birth, and they only gave me residency and not my birthright. Later, they would use my time studying abroad as a way to say that I had violated my residency and became deportable. I was removed from my home with the two suitcases I had taken to visit my family and sent to the border to live in a country I hadn't lived in for over 20 years.

[@Emily3383]

@@LoboMendez1 😲

[@HazelGreen64]

My family speaks and writes Spanish and English very well but did not teach us the Spanish. Only the English. I don’t feel bad about it. I understand but I don’t speak. I’m 🇨🇺🇵🇷 but I was born in NYC and while we don’t have an official language English is the dominate one. I don’t let anyone make me feel bad because I don’t speak. I already understand most of it and if I want to learn I’ll do it on my own not because someone tries to humiliate me about it or tell me I should.

[@melparker8689]

I get sh$& all the time from 1st generation Latinos and family members because though I speak intermediate Spanish it is not as good as my English. My response to them is I was born and raised here and I make my living using English so as long as I live in the states my Spanish doesn't need to be perfect. When I hangout with my cousins and we are speaking English in public I get looks from other Latin people. I am like wtf yes we are Hispanic but WE ARE FROM HERE! We were all born and raised in either CT or NYC not Guatemala lol.

[@spheksophobiaurinal]

why are they angry that you're speaking in your mother tonge? The US is an anglophone country, people speak english and that's it, spanish is just a bonus, but it is not needed

[@Xerene]

People make fun of those who can't speak English. It's just natural, it's okay if your p*ssy hurts. I'll hold your hand while you cope.

[@manyplanets]

Because these Hispanics are ignorant leeches. They want to steal this country with illegal immigration, dissolve American culture, and claim it as their own

[@AnimatedBlast]

That’s not too bad. At least you speak intermediate level.

[@blaisemacpherson7637]

Don't be a no sabo kid

[@bobthemethguy3450]

My dad decided to not teach us spanish because he felt like we would face less discrimination in the united states, he wasn't totally wrong, when I was in elementary school my teacher pulled me aside and said "This is America we speak english"

[@e.g.1218]

My grandparents didn't teach my dad for this reason. There needs to be protective laws for this that would prohibit teachers from doing this.

[@sanepillow59]

Assimilating isach taking the coward's way out

[@nicoley8844]

I appreciate this movement a lot. I grew up being taught I wasn’t Latina bc I didn’t speak Spanish fluently. Discipline teaches you typically nothing, but negative teachings, if that.

[@danielwetmore7019]

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[@nicoley8844]

@@danielwetmore7019 thank you for your sweet words! I, and most importantly my family, am doing well! A scare here and there, but we all are slowly becoming vaccinated and staying healthy! Just gotta wait for the younger kids to get their vaccines :)

[@nicoley8844]

@@danielwetmore7019 I also wish the same for you and your loved ones!

[@danielwetmore7019]

@@nicoley8844 Hello good afternoon happy Sunday. What do you do today that keep you busy?

[@El.Matamoros.]

It also depends where you're from in Texas and new mexico alot of people speak Spanish it's the culture,even some white people speak Spanish when I went to Michigan i was the only Mexican who spoke spanish it's the opposite there it's all pochos.

[@abaez7484]

I personally think that learning the language allows one to go deeper into the community. I learned Spanish at the age of 12 and I have been able to be a strong advocate for my community, more now as an ESL teacher where I can help more Latinos speak English by knowing their language.

[@eddycarpenter8989]

yall dont know who you are. haha finding your culture by learning the language of the people that ra.ped your ancestors and made you half breed watered down mestizos

[@XerxezsX]

Knowing Spanish and English is like knowing two worlds, and you just doubled your choices in life 👌

[@SuperRip7]

The native-English speakers never got an opportunity to learn a second language. They paid the price.

[@urbanfalcon756]

Twice the problems too.

[@AlexanderWaight]

​@@SuperRip7why do Spanish speakers come to English speaking nations 🤔 maybe because Spanish ain't so good

[@zoren1900]

​​@@AlexanderWaight lol. What? Spanish was the first European language in what is now the USA. Waaayyyy before English 🙂 This is coming from someone who's first language is English. If you were smart you would know there is NO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE in the USA 🙃 Learn Spanish

[@AlexanderWaight]

@@zoren1900 SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES LOOK ST LATIN AMERICA

[@1OfdaKoldest]

I partially grew to dislike my hispanic community because of the hard time they always gave me just for not knowing spanish. Like why does it make you so mad that I dont know spanish? Dont worry about me. Live your life.

[@DJ-yf3ob]

Plus it's not even their native language. Spanish is the European language. No Mexican is accepted in Spain

[@franciscoalonso3786]

I live in Canada. I I learned English and French. I already spoke Spanish. I made an effort to learn these languages. You’re a full on adult, have some dignity and respect for the US’s de facto second Language Spanish and learn some. Unlike other languages, Spanish was established European language in what is now the US (from Florida to California) long before the English arrived in the US. Stop coming up with excuses you monolingual hillbilly.

[@MexidiosAzotadorDeArgensimios]

It’s more common with the Mexicans than other Latinos

[@zoren1900]

​@@MexidiosAzotadorDeArgensimios nope

[@MexidiosAzotadorDeArgensimios]

@@zoren1900 I noticed that most no sabos have parents from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

[@pep590]

It's not their culture. They are American. American is their culture. It is their former family language. If your grandparents came from Germany and you know zero German, is German actually your culture?

[@danielolivo285]

I felt this to heart. I'm an American of Dominican descent, and I get scolded a lot by members of the Latino community, but I don't really care. I'm a gringo at heart and proud of it. Latino is part of my roots, but the united states will always be my country.

[@sade62397]

And you should be proud of being an American!! There’s a reason why our immigrant parents came to this country, the land of opportunity! 🇺🇸 and I love it, “gringo at heart..”😆👍🏼

[@chancellorpalpatineakathes6130]

Same here, I’m actually an indigenous Mexican who arrived at age 6 only speaking my indigenous language. The English speakers always treated me as an equal unlike the Spanish speakers. So I’ve decided to forget about my country that disrespects people like me and become solid American as I am anyways whichever way one sees it.

[@SuperRip7]

Very rare occasion.

[@saritaelizondo3696]

@@SuperRip7 thank you because its rare to hear about a Dominican who doesn’t speak Spanish.

[@colinchampollion4420]

You are NOT a gringo! A gringo is an European Nordic! You are far from that! You n are most likely a Truegno~ mixed African, Indigenous and some Iberian b loodlines

[@susanadolfsson9894]

How about appreciating both languages? Other countries support "home language" and see it as a benefit to the person and society.

[@danielwetmore7019]

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[@coconut3626]

Great idea 💡 It’s really up to the individual families, actually. It is ok to have more then one culture in a family in my own opinion. How fun life can be.

[@bidenhasdementia8657]

Having a society that uses two languages is a major weakness. Creates "us vs them" mentalities and hinders cohesion and understanding. We need thousands of free English language lessons all across the country for the millions of illegal immigrants.

[@TexasMex422]

@@bidenhasdementia8657 stupid 😂😂

[@linkskywalker5417]

​​​​​​@@bidenhasdementia8657 You do have a point about that. Belgium has two official languages, French and Dutch, the Waloons speaking the former and Stupid Sexy Flanders (see what I did there?) speaking the latter. And despite both of them living in the same country where the EU is headquartered, they've hated each other for decades, long before the European migrant crisis started. Also, the whites in South Africa didn't get along even during apartheid because of having two official languages. This of course, led to both the Afrikaans speaking whites and English speaking whites to resent each other. Cameroon has a civil war going on because of both English and French being official languages, last I checked. So no, having multiple official languages does not help unite a country. In fact, it can divide it. And latino parents in America pressuring their children to learn Spanish just to talk to family members is a bad thing, just like British parents in Spain doing the same thing to their children. If you decide to live in another country, you must learn the language of the land. Yes, some businesses in America do have services in Spanish, but most do not. And those that do have traditionally served the area around, at most, a 100 mile radius of the US-Mexico border, not Chicago.

[@LuzLopez-ci4kl]

Dont call us Latinos People want to put us all in one box but we are all different every country with its unique culture.

[@sanepillow59]

That's because you're not a real Latin American but a brown gringo. Actual Latin Americans consider each other brothers, regardless of which country they were born (La Patria Grande)

[@Daecoth]

Spanish speaker to me, a Latino man: You're mexican, aren't you? Why don't you speak spanish??? Me: Oh, my parents died when I was only two so I was rasied by a white family. You want to know more about some tragic things I lived through? Them: 😐

[@dfmrh12345]

Them: porque no sabes español?!??? Me serving at an American Restaurant: porque no háblame en Inglés😂🙄🧐

[@melis6294]

We are Hispanic not Latino, we don't speak Latin we speak Spanish.

[@Daecoth]

Latino, Hispanic, beaner, taco, it's all the same. Still a proud Texan and American where I speak the language around me.

[@gimi2395]

There's a lot Chicanos that speak Spanish.. but because they don't live in a Spanish speaking country, they don't know a lot of words, which is understandable. However this makes it difficult bc of the lack of vocabulary, y la anglosificacion del español. So when they try to say something in Spanish but they are using the structure of the English language then it can sound odd or, at times, not be understood

[@joegalaviz9244]

this just proves once again that some people are cruel. I was hated when my English was poor, you would hear it every where "don't speak Spanish" this is America, English only!" now is reverse. esta gente esta loca, Padres, nunca cambies tu cultura para otros.

[@linkskywalker5417]

You just can't please anyone, can you? You speak Spanish, people complain. You don't speak Spanish, people complain. People should make up their minds.

[@joshuamaldonado250]

​@@linkskywalker5417people are stupid unfortunately

[@Acord718]

As a Nuyorican I totally understand this. People judge all the time about know Spanish or not knowing Spanish

[@valuecalc]

You can never avoid it.

[@valuecalc]

@@bull419, and many fear that other Americans will frown upon it.

[@linkskywalker5417]

​​​@@valuecalc Or that illegal immigrant latinos will look down on latinos who do not speak Spanish. Either way, they can't please anyone.

[@elaineen1]

I always spoke Spanish at home to my Puerto Rican parents. When I would visit Puerto Rico the locals would say they knew I was from the mainland because of the way I spoke Spanish. I guess I spoke Nuyorican Spanish.

[@Lafamiliavera]

There are always two sides to every story. One is the kids that were encouraged to only speak English, but there are also thousands upon thousands of kids that simply have no interest in speaking Spanish. I live here in Orlando Florida, where the Puerto Rican community is the biggest minority group. I know tons of people who speak only Spanish to their kids, but their kids will not talk back to them in Spanish. I do think that in journalism it’s always good to show both sides of the story that way the parents and/or the “system” are not always held as being “the bad guys”. All in all, this was a very good report about the Latino community and the beauty of speaking two different languages here in the USA.

[@hiphipjorge5755]

Yep, it definitely has little to do with the laws she mentioned. I don't think the report was accurate on the history. Those laws were put in place for a bunch of languages, to eradicate Native languages (Navajo, Lakota, Ojibwe, Cherokee, etc), French in Louisiana and New England, Spanish in New Mexico/Texas, and the many immigrant languages being spoken by the masses of Italians, Irish, Germans, Eastern Europeans, Scandinavians, Jews, Japanese and other immigrants who were living in the US by the 1910s. This is why by the 1950s and 1960s, when the grandchildren of those immigrants were being born, during peak years of "Americana," the US had largely homogenized it's culture, which the suburbs and mass media helped to do as well. Most Americans only spoke English well by the 1960s, since the immigrant languages from Europe, native languages and the American dialects of French and Spanish, were pretty much dying out. But the thing is, the majority of Spanish-speakers living in the US today moved here after the 1960s. There were only small pockets of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans living on the East and West Coasts who were affected by the language policies. Most of us are the result of 1970s-2000s migration. I'm Guatemalan and salvadoran through my parents, and they moved here in 1990.

[@yucol5661]

I mean, how sad is it that 90% of a child’s daily speaking is in school and not a higher rate from home and outside of school. Sure it’s not the parents fault if their kids don’t want to speak it, but how little must you speak to them if they don’t find a use for it And then those parents speak more English at home and only use their home language to yell at their kids or nag them. And then have the gall to complain about the kids not liking the language or make fun of them for mistakes.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

There is zero shame in being monolingual or bilingual or trilingual or multilingual. Do it if it makes you happy. Don't do it if it does not, if it is too hard work. It is a personal choice that doesn't affect anyone else. It's not like eating animals/meat. That is NOT just a "personal choice". That tortures and murders innocent animals.

[@emmanuelalva6597]

It seems like it’s only looked down on for Mexican Americans to not speaking Spanish. Most Puerto Rican Americans I know don’t know Spanish, it’s just normal. I live close to one of the biggest Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the country and a good majority of people there don’t speak Spanish.

[@JaviandRonin]

So my parents never taught me and I basically knew nothing when I was younger, then I grew up and starting learning because of the intense guilt I had. I’m still not fluent in the slightest but people judge me way more on my mistakes now even they have no idea how far i’ve come…

[@chrisnarvaez3434]

I wasn't taught spanish and i barely Understand it its so hard not Knowing it because thier are People at School who look down on you for not speaking it Fluently and i feel left out i wish I was taught it as a kid and not on my own

[@LuisGonzalez-px4sj]

I was born and raised here in Florida my parents are from El Salvador, but I barley know Spanish. When I was in high School there were other latino teens not American but born in their native country they use to make fun of me because I couldn't speak Spanish some didn't except me because of it there were times I felt sad and alone. Now that I'm older I have more latino friends and now I am learning little by little my teen years were pretty tough.

[@jc6800]

Thank you for this. It made me cry.

[@MsSkullomania]

I was born in the US I only spoke Spanish with my parents but that was it I didn’t speak it much at school . I understand Spanish 100% but when it comes to speaking I struggle at times. I’ve been made fun of by my family at times for the way i speak .

[@sunshinejones3248]

This is AMERICA. Speak English. Be AMERICAN. Love America

[@ShantiD575]

It's possible to love America, be American, and speak English and Spanish. Most second-generation Americans speak a second language. It's pathetic how so many Americans only speak English! All of my foreign friends speak at least two languages.

[@sunshinejones3248]

@@ShantiD575 I agree it is pathetic. But America & English is all I know. Can't blame me. I have many international friends. We joke all the time, but at the end of the day. This is America.

[@yourmajesty122]

ive lived in America my whole life and don't like. the shootings and mental illness here are ridiculous. the homelessness too. america doesn't care about it's cirizens

[@sanepillow59]

America is a continent

[@melis6294]

You mean NORTH AMERICA

[@aprilpinkelton4385]

They should be teaching all of our children as soon as they're in preschool. I wish I had the opportunity to learn to speak Spanish. I have been self-teaching for years now and it's been tough. I work with so many Spanish ppl that I love and have a friendship with, and it would be a better, and even stronger relationship if we didn't have a language barrier. I look at our country as US/Spanish- America we're neighbors we should be able to communicate.

[@Lawlzinator]

Spanish people? We don't border spain.

[@asperneto]

Teaching another language in schools is not enough. One needs to speak it everyday, practice with someone in order to acquire fluency. But, it should not make you feel any less of a Latina or anything else.

[@lyssanch3096]

@@Lawlzinator some east coast thing, they call anyone who speaks spanish "spanish"

[@buttertoast1146]

No there's no need

[@impossibleisjustanopinion9898]

Eliminate that word please LatinX sounds ridiculous

[@gabelgy8361]

LatinX are hypocrite like you

[@ChosenOne6666]

My parents are from France and I dont speak a lick of it. But I know how to order Mexican food.

[@SuperRip7]

hmm.

[@ChosenOne6666]

@@SuperRip7 Chicken tacos homie

[@asperneto]

This, i believe is the problem of immigrants. Why did you migrate in the first place? You assimilate into the new environment. Why can't they be fluent in their parents' language? Because they go to school where english is the medium of instruction, you need to communicate with classmates and teachers, so you're forced to acquire fluency in English. Some households require kids to speak a native language at home, eventually making kids multilingual. It should not make you feel less of a Latino or Asian or Islander if you cannot speak the language. It's what is in your heart. Anyway, an immigrant will forever look different no matter how or what they speak. The conversation here should be more about appreciating diversity! Let's not pressure these kids, people. They have more problems today than what parents want them on their plates.

[@El.Matamoros.]

Cause then you need it in other places or to talk to other family memebers or friends if they don't know spanish then they can't even understand the culture or comunicate with the people they sometimes claim.

[@SuperRip7]

Virtually every Hispanic person knows Spanish in the United States. America does not have enough money support second language for everyone.

[@asperneto]

@@SuperRip7 we can learn something or new skills without depending on the govt. Let's not depend on what the govt can offer us. Some countries offer free education.

[@SuperRip7]

@@asperneto I believe it's called charity or private education.

[@SuperRip7]

@@asperneto Moreover native-speakers of English (about 80-percent) effectively do not learn another foreign languages in school which explains why they are monolingual all over the nation. Yeah. It is not their fault. The ESL program is already costing a king's ransom and it is growing all the time. Eventually it begins to decline, since quality always takes a tumble every child must go to school. This is why I never "wag the finger" or speaking bitterly to anyone who is monolingual. Their opportunity were denied as children.

[@robbienorton9522]

I think we need to work better in the US to remove the stigma of speaking a foreign languagle in public as somehow wrong or frowned upon... I say this as a white American that grew up in the South. I also am a fluent spanish speaker and I have lived abroad for several years. I love to see the changes in my State now that Spanish is finally becoming more accepted in public and in the work place as well as schools. I think we need to show people the opportunities that you'll have in life being a bilingual. I think that's the biggest cultural hurdle. Aside from that it is very difficult to learn a second language and not everyone can do it easily. Everyone is capable though given the right amount of effort.

[@buttertoast1146]

​@wkyt9324 no English will always be the primary

[@massmuertos7472]

My first language was Spanish I switched to English at 6 years old, I’m now 27 and get bullied at work everyday over this they think I’m a white guy that’s a wannabe

[@melodramatic7904]

This is so sad to hear. I was born and raised in NYC to English monolingual parents and I watched as all my bilingual friends found jobs before me specifically because they are bilingual. Now I live in Italy and I have a group of friend who are descendants of Italians who immigrated to America and they have told me how sad they are that their parents chose not to teach them italian and they had to learn it later in life. I have been making sure to teach my kids english even though we live in italy cause i know what the benefits will be later in life.

[@12inter88]

I mean…I feel being multilingual is a beautiful thing. Doesn’t have to be Spanish, though. People from New Jersey don’t berate guidos for not knowing Italian

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

I'm learning Italian, such a beautiful language

[@12inter88]

@@SUGAR_XYLER right on!

[@qazwerty123451]

They absolutely do tho. The difference is, there are so many more people in the US that are fluent in spanish to berate the no sabo kids than there are people fluent in italian to berate guidos. If you go on tiktok, there's an italian whose whole channel is essentially making fun of italian americans.

[@agustin2812]

@@qazwerty123451 Italian and Spanish are very similar Romance languages ​​so there is no excuse to learn Spanish

[@JTTX84]

I’m Mexican-American, I’m 100% bilingual and WHO CARES if foreign born Hispanics make fun of you for not being fluent in Spanish. We live in the USA those people making fun of you should be more concerned about talking in fluent English than talking in fluent Spanish. 🤷‍♂️

[@kittenlove1987]

I was barely spoken to in spanish 10-20% being raised by my grandmother, but english is my main language. I can understand it more than i can speak it, i know that sounds weird 🤷‍♀️ my spanish skills are a 4.5 outta 10 scale rating, mostly can understand the basic words and profanity etc.

[@Maria-oh1nq]

Pure laziness

[@axgcat]

my family did not want me to learn Spanish out of fear of discrimination as a kid but my curiosity made me learn it anyway. im fluent in spanish & english (french is my third language that is my weakest). those around me who did not become fluent in spanish did it mainly out of shame. they would make fun of the esl students & anyone who spoke fluent spanish here in L.A. in the 80s & 90s. being mexican in america is not as "cool" as being african american or white american hence white wash & now black washed mexicans who cant speak spanish. there are now mexican americans who speak with a blackcent/ebonics & were not raised by african americans but can barely speak spanish. in most cases its a matter of will, influence & voluntary ignorance. i have met white & black americans who learned spanish by merely working with mexicans, its a weak excuse not to learn it.

[@ghost-yd8ol]

Beautiful children and families 🦋✨💖

[@Rosearts1440]

Honestly, when I was younger, my parents where not married, and my father was Spanish while my mother was white (Scottish) my grandma never taught my father Spanish and I never saw her enough to learn it. After a while, my mom took me and moved from my father (along with our dog) and moved. Sence in the state we lived in had not many Spanish people, I grew up learning no Spanish after living in a completely English household and community. It wasn’t until I went to McAllen,Texas that I thought about learning it either.

[@themechanictangerine]

You father was from Spain?

[@Rosearts1440]

@@themechanictangerine Not him exactly, but his (and kinda mine) ancestors were.

[@deeday2576]

Studies show that its best for kids to be taught/grow up with their mother tongue. It gives them the best opportunity for further language acquisition. From my own personal experience, if you are a foreigner, speak your mother tongue with your kids at home. They *will* learn the “majority” language in school. It may take them a few years to catch up with their peers language-wise *but* in the end they’ll be bilingual, speak both languages without an accent (native speakers) and you set them up to be able to more easily learn other languages. As I get older, I have much more appreciation for my heritage and regret that my family felt so much pressure to assimilate that they didn’t encourage me learning Spanish. It definitely feels like your missing a piece of yourself. Didn’t want my kids having the same experience.

[@deeday2576]

@Fright Night... 👻 What’s your point, Jim Bob?

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

@@deeday2576 Tu esta loco en la cabeza 😜

[@HazelGreen64]

Well here in America as of 2019 English is the official language and rightfully so because most Americans speak English exclusively so even though I’m 🇨🇺🇵🇷 I don’t speak Spanish and I don’t have to in my country because in America we can speak whatever we want but it’s English here so I’m proud of that. I understand the Spanish language but I should not have to speak it. I never learned and did very well in career paths without it because well you must speak English in high careers anyway. Also Spanish is not native tongue unless your ancestors are exclusively from Spain which for most of us latinos/Hispanics it’s a language of our ancestors that conquered our ancestors who spoke our actual mother tongue. I personally don’t feel the need to learn another conquerors language in a country that speaks English. If I lived in Cuba or Puerto Rico I’d feel inclined to.

[@SuperRip7]

Schools don't have vaults of cash.

[@kurrie3280]

@@SUGAR_XYLER You assumed a familiarity that is not warranted.

[@darielamartinez4755]

this is on the laws that were in place, the parents, and even the children themselves. I actually went through multiple waves of knowing and not knowing spanish. i learned English at 4 and stopped speaking spanish completely until about 13 when I moved to the border of Texas/Mexico. I regained what i had lost through struggling! I HAD to speak Spanish, otherwise stores and vendors would scam me in Mexico. I came back to the North more confident and slowly started losing it again because all my friends were white and black and spent less time with my family. It went away until I went back down south at 17 and spent 4 years along the border. During those 4 years I was speaking the best Spanish of my life lol. But i’ve moved back up north, it’s been 3 almost 4 years and I don’t have Spanish speaking friends anymore, I spend less time with my family, I’m the only spanish speaker at my job, and my boyfriend is white. I feel myself speak less and less spanish and now whenever I go into La Michoacana or even any mexican store, hasta me da vergüenza hablar. My confidence in it is slipping and it hurts when others treat you different because “you’re too white”. It truly is a struggle but I realize it’s up to me now to seek out others that I can talk to and hold on to what I have and to better myself.

[@Critique808]

Spanish is from Spain and not from Latin America.

[@elaineen1]

I always spoke Spanish to my Puerto Rican parents. My wife said her Spanish parents would speak to her in Spanish and she would respond in English. When we married we spoke English unless we wanted to say something we did not want our children to know. We finally decided our youngest was our last hope so we sent her to live and study in Spain for the summer. She is the only one who understands Spanish although she can barely speak it. This is common with most. Asian kids do not speak their original language by the 3rd generation.

[@lokie3502]

Learning to read and write at an advanced level will help you immensely in vocabulary, spelling, grammar and sentence structure. Spanish is easy to pronounce, and especially so if you grew up in a Spanish speaking home because the accent and rhythm are already in your head. I learned to read and write French quite well, but I can not speak it naturally or understand it spoken by a native speaker. But if i had grown up hearing it in the home just casually I would be most likely be vocally fluent as well as fluent on paper. It's two different things knowing what to say and then knowing how to get it out of your mouth.

[@novelero03]

I think what people fail to see is the whole picture. The US is a very monolingual country and the learning of other languages is not deemed as "important" because of American exceptionalism, politics, culture, etc. If we look at things historically, other groups have assimilated into mainstream American culture. We can see it from folks of Italian, German, French, Polish, etc. descent. This is what is happening with Latinos and it was bound to happen, the process of assimilating into American culture. Other external factors will speed up the process along the way. While they may retain certain aspects of their "Latinidad", down the road, it will get lost at some point and become fully part of American cultural practices and just be American.

[@shemakennedy6138]

I'm of middle eastern descent. I LoVe Spanish. It's a musical language, the words rhyme. I'm learning Spanish through Rosetta stone. I have a tutor from Peru online. I am always watching Spanish news and baby story books. Te Qeuro Espanol.

[@e.g.1218]

My grandparents didn't teach their kids Spanish so they would face less discrimination and be able to get a better job. By the time I was a teenager knowing Spanish was seen as a good thing but my dad never learned although one of his sisters did. But during my grandparents and dads time, kids were discouraged from speaking Spanish, hit with rulers, had their mouths washed out with soap etc.

[@anarcho-savagery2097]

Honestly, shame is a major part of wanting to learn the language that your ethnic community speaks in their home land. Saying that shaming "No Sabo Kids" is destructive is not really true. These communities come to the U.S. with their culture, language and their ways of life. While I will always advocate for a degree of assimilation in regards to a greater social cohesion, choosing to not learn the language of your family is a choice. Saying you don't have all the right avenues to learn and practice your culture is nothing more then self-victimization.

[@agustin2812]

You have to know very well the history of the United States and its Hispanic legacy before saying inconsistencies. Texas and California and New Mexico were Mexicans and before Spanish, speaking a language is a crime? haha how ignorant you are.

[@XCristianxX]

Spanish is a European language it is disrespectful to the Aztecs and Mayan and other indigenous cultures to speak Spanish erasing their history.

[@anarcho-savagery2097]

@@XCristianxX Bro, your telling me things in English lol 😂 I agree that Spanish is a European language but it's the language that current people in Mexico have learned to speak. History happened, you can't change that, pero you could try learning Nahuatl if it means that much to you. I know I try every now and then.

[@agustin2812]

@@XCristianxX the English language also comes from Europe from England, if we go by your logic why do you speak English? and not an indigenous language? The indigenous languages ​​in Mexico are almost non-existent, the Mayans and the Aztecs are different, they are not the same languages.

[@XCristianxX]

@@anarcho-savagery2097 I was exaggerating lol 😆. I agree shaming could cause people to want to learn their ethnic language but I don't think shaming or roasting people is right cause you never know the circumstances they grew up in maybe they didn't grow up around that language. My Spanish isn't the best really the only people that complained where Mexican Americans. I have traveled to multiple Latin American country's they never complained like the Hispanics in the usa.

[@abulailafigueroa]

How bout understanding this. Like my mother for example. She speaks eloquently to the point she can be a politician who speaks Spanish but neither me and my sibling do not speak Spanish because she was too busy busting her ass working to take the time to teach us so enforced English math and other sciences

[@NelsonBlandonArceda]

¡EXCELENTE programa, me encanta! ¡Somos latinos/hispanos y es un orgullo! Saludos a todos los que hablamos la lengua #castellana/española.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Si eres Hispano a latino vale mas que vivas en Europa si no eres un invasor.

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

@@Halcon_Sierreno Y tu quien eres para definir quien es invasor?

[@NuaSOU]

Cálmate, nadie se está refiriendo a los españoles en este vídeo, si no la comunidad latina

[@alexslieker9744]

You are natives, worship a white men language and don't know your own language 😂😂😂 what a lost culture...

[@lGraytheferalcat]

Do the descendants of other immigrants like Italians Spanish French still speak their original language don’t think so. This is a stupid subject this is America 🇺🇸 and eventually everyone assimilates

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

😂😂😂 dude most immigrants speak their language and whose job it is for you to be Caring what other people speak like come on man

[@miklo5755]

People with a Mexican accent in English who don't speak Spanish are very weird to an actual Mexican.

[@miklo5755]

@Alec Valenzuela no. Doesn't have anything to do with race. I didn't even say that i don't like Mexicans who don't speak Spanish. I just said it's weird to a Mexican who lives in Mexico that your only language is broken English for example. You probably don't see where I'm coming from

[@isaiahmejia4616]

Tragedia, espero que Roberto tenga mucho éxito con el español . Estoy muy afortunado de que mis padres me ayudaron con el español. Pero, tengo mucha empatía para los que tienen dificultad con el español y es triste que muchos sacrifican su cultura para asimilarse a la culture estado unidense, no exclusivamente con los Latinos.

[@RiseAwakenedOne]

This English speaking country

[@michaelregis1015]

@@RiseAwakenedOne This is a multilingual platform, pendejo.

[@mkgvlc4]

@@RiseAwakenedOne una mierda, EEUU no tiene un idioma oficial por la constitución. Florida, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico, California, Nevada. Te suenan Ingleses esos estados pendejo?

[@agustin2812]

@@RiseAwakenedOne puerto rico speak spanish

[@edgargallegos4274]

Soy muy afortunado*

[@Nolonge111]

I was born in the USA, the first language I spoke and understood was Haitian Creole. When I first went to daycare the teachers would talk to me in English and I had no idea what the hell they were talking about and I would talk to them in Creole. They told my mom that she has to teach me English. So then my grandma came into the picture at 4 years old and she couldn't speak English to save her life unless it's the word "Fyou" lol. So growing up I spoke Creole with my grandmother, English and Creole with my mom, and English in school. Only thing is I can't read the Creole language but I can speak and understand fluently.

[@kevenhernandez6995]

I come from a latino hispanic family I don't speak spanish fully it frustrated me that I only speak english. Get the comments from my job from a customer often do you speak english have to keep my cool and put on a brave face and a force smile and be nice and polite to them when inside I went to yell and scream and let it go.

[@HazelGreen64]

I always tell them this is America and the dominant language here is English which most people here speak. It’s good to know the language of the country you’re privileged to live in and respect the language there. That usually shuts them up. Sometimes I get spoken to in Italian because I look Sicilian to people but I’m 🇵🇷🇨🇺.

[@El.Matamoros.]

How are you from a Latino hispanic family but can't speak spanish.

[@SuperRip7]

That is very rare.

[@Mexicali686MX]

@@HazelGreen64 stfu we speak any language we want lol

[@sanepillow59]

@@HazelGreen64 they did a good job domesticating you🐕‍🦺

[@stevemadrid6522]

I went to elementary school in the Bay Area in the 1970s. When my mom was going to register us for school, she was asked what language we spoke at home. When she asked why, she was told if our first langauge was Spanish we would be ESL students. My mom wanted to give us the best shot to succeed in school so sh made sure we spoke fluent English. California of the 70s was not as accommodtaing to Spanish speakers as it is now. We basically had all of our "Mexican-ness" stripped out of us. Years later, many school districts would change their policies and approaches to educating non-English speaking students. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I began to reconnect with my Mexican heritage. Despite wanting to reconnect with my culture and raise my own daughter in that culture, I still encounter other Latinos who see me as "less than" because my Spanish is not very good. Some people are outright hostile to me for not being Mexican enough for their liking. While I feel fortunate to be able to experience my culture while passing it on to my daughter, I am always reminded that in the end, I'm not quite Mexican enough.

[@cheetolics]

Same in Canada I'm from Montreal only one in family who can't speak Spanish other than my dad but he's not Spanish. I don't feel like I belong anywhere.

[@ericktwelve11]

I'm from Toronto Ontario, I speak Spanish, I wanna start learning French because I wanna be trilingual

[@SuperRip7]

I thought French was spoken there.

[@AnimatedBlast]

Well, if you expect other Americans to learn Spanish, why don’t you?

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

He dose man just stop hating on us spanish

[@AA-wu2fk]

The aztecs, incas etc didn't speak spanish neither do Brazilians

[@Jcon4002]

Most latin American countries spoke Mayan languages back then before the Spanish colonized them

[@za.monolit]

Who cares. They don't exist anymore

[@AA-wu2fk]

​@@za.monolit they still do,look it up

[@za.monolit]

@@AA-wu2fk not their civilizations.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

Ok but whose job is it to be judging what people speak

[@BurgersRgoodfr]

I grew up in Texas, Im hispanic myself but dont know how to even hold a conversation in spanish. None of my siblings speak spanish at all nor do I. I have been called white washed and been picked on so much for not knowing how to speak spanish and people thinking i am white. I still do to this day from people and friends sometimes. My dad didn't want to teach us since my mom doesn't know any. Same goes with some of my cousins and tias, and uncles, not all of them tho. I just wish I was able to, I try to practice and all I listen to is spanish music, and use spanish words all my life now. But feel like I will never actually get to know what it feels like talking with someone in a different language from english. It would be so cool and I honestly would be happy. I hope one day I atleast get to hold conversations.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

No there latinos man I can tell

[@pep590]

Sorry you were surrounded by so many anti-white racists.

[@selenasalazar8598]

And then the continued shaming in the comments 🫠🫠🫠

[@Pookiegmaw1958]

I can read and understand Spanish but I don’t feel comfortable speaking. I have no one to speak it with so it’s hard to keep up speaking Spanish.

[@Cesar_1216]

Si no sabes español no eres latino ¿Sino como te comunicas con tu comunidad, tus abuelos, tu familia fuera de los Estados Unidos sin conocer el idioma español? El no saber no necesariamente es tu culpa, los repsonsables puden ser tus padres por no haberte enseñado, pero si al crecer no haces el esfuerzo de aprender a hablar el idioma de tu comunidad, eso si que es tu culpa.

[@SuperRip7]

En primer lugar, no hablas ingles. Esa es una simplificacion excesiva porque practicamente todos los latinos hablan espanol en los Estados Unidos, asi que no se quién es su audiencia.

[@SuperRip7]

@Alec Valenzuela This is not about whether Hispanics should know Spanish or not. Franky, the best quality a human being can have is moral descency and not what language they have been speaking since birth. Back to the story, I am perplexed why ABC News ran this segment. These yo so sabo kids, a word I never heard until recently, are a teeny, weeny group of Hispanic people that are less the fluent in Spanish. I have lived in the Los Angeles Metro Area for over 30 years (born in the 1980s) and I never met a Hispanic person who could not speak their hertitage language. Any chance of a language shift still cannot be detected. Spanish is a very powerful language that trascends generations because the U.S. government made it easy and possible that way. I was only astonished that ABC News aired this sigment and I had to react.

[@gbrgbr6625]

Es que a la gente de EE UU les gustan decir que son latinos sin conocer nuestra region, sin tener nuestra cultura, sin hablar nuestros idiomas. Creo q lo hacen por moda

[@SuperRip7]

@@gbrgbr6625 eh ?!

[@spxecu]

"Latinos" in the US are Latin American descendants born in US soil, including people with Brazilian (Portuguese) and Haitian (Creole) heritage. Wrongly the term #Latino is only associated with Spanish speakers. Italians, French , Portugueses, Spaniards and Romanians are also "latinos" due to they speak latin-based languages.

[@miligallo9100]

Nobody in latin america said i am a latino/latina. That is a label that the north american gives to us. If you born in usa, you are a usa citizen.

[@ConvictedFelon2024]

You can speak English, or you can speak Spanish at any one time. But not both. Too few people know how to communicate in English or Spanish on their own, and even fewer will know what you're saying when you combine the two. Not a good strategy if you want to reach the widest audience possible.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Tu esta loco en la cabeza 🤪

[@astranger3377]

Tienes una idea errónea, Si se puede hablar 2 lenguas, No tienes experiencia, No sabes lo que es aprender un idioma extranjero

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

So that’s racism right there two Countries weee never meant to mix

[@bull419]

When anyone criticizes my Spanish I always say my Spanish is better than your English.

[@kamalaharis3564]

Let’s go Brandon!

[@88Crager]

Lame

[@e4t662]

It's getting old, quickly.

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

Vamos Brandon! lol!!

[@neondrivercartman3569]

@Carpe Diem Remember when Hunter did a crack run with air force 2? Oh you watch MSM so no.

[@Spidr-Man]

I just don’t understand why parents stop talking with their kids in spanish when they get here… As if the kids in the rest of the world didn’t do it; some kids like me even grow up with 3 languages… We got here from México when I was 4 and they kept speaking spanish with me my whole life and 3 years later even put me in french classes and, even though I hated it, now I’m so thankful to them because my wife is french. Parents like these just do a huge disservice to their kids making the first 1/5 of their life as easy as possible while screwing up the other 4/5…

[@johnther]

This topic is old and its not just in one community. Dont feel bad if you do not know the language of another colonizer. Just go with the flow and learn as you go! Plus, you'd be surprised how many first generation folk dont mind being spoken to in english; theyre gotta practice english somehow.

[@fernandoperez8587]

Most Latinos have some Spanish blood. Spanish is a part of our identity.

[@momodoodle]

​@fernandoperez8587 I understand there are Latinos that have more Spanish in them than others, but there are also many Latinos who have indigenous blood in them too. What of it? If you're going to use that logic then Latinos should be bilingual and learn their conquers' language (Spanish/Portuguese, etc.) and their people's indigenous language (Yucatec, Nahuatl, etc.) too so that way they don't sound hypocritical when they say, "Know your culture and language." to shame fellow Latinos. I don't see them identifying with both sides of their bloodline.

[@christiansoto9755]

Listen man, if you don't know Spanish, you're american. Not Mexican, not Puerto Rican or where ever your family is. There are exceptions such as people raised in the states but were born somewhere else. Language is such a big part of the culture. If you're using Latinx, you are not helping your cause.

[@sanepillow59]

Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are American. America is a continentMayan in South America

[@christiansoto9755]

@@sanepillow59 when we say American, we mean being from the US or Canada

[@A2goddess]

I don't speak Spanish only English. Dont care.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

Then why comment

[@dopeaf129]

I ain't gonna lie I'm black but if I know ah Hispanic who can't speak Spanish it's weird

[@El.Matamoros.]

?

[@raymondfelton961]

Eye no blek mai fren an dominican

[@SuperRip7]

That is extremely rare.

[@kingsknight7210]

I have faced discrimination by spanish speakers and it's real if you're latino...i don't like it... I got made fun of many times for speaking wrong...

[@furbymetal83]

If you dont speak spanish and never visited your alleged country of origin, you re not Latino. Just another flavor of gringo. It hurts, but its true

[@anahi.1i]

So the africa americans that don't speak their language, the asian anercians that dont speak their language? They are considered gringo right?

[@chrisnarvaez3434]

@@anahi.1i Spanish is not our native language so why does it matter this language came from Spain Nicolas doesnt know what he is talking about

[@anahi.1i]

@@chrisnarvaez3434 oh thats true

[@chrisnarvaez3434]

@@anahi.1i we lost our native languages when the spainards came over and colonized most of Latin America and now we speak thier language now in other words we have no other choice to learn it if we are visiting a spanish speaking country in Latin America or going to spain where the spanish comes from 🇨🇴🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@sanepillow59]

yep

[@crismarieb6275]

As a 4th Mexican American my great grandparents knew English so you definitely lose the language especially because my grandparents and parents were punished in school for talking it. I definitely would like to learn more I learned a lot because I worked for Kroger and we changed the store I worked at to a Fry’s Mercado and I had to learn which I feel really benefited me

[@brendamartinez4587]

Smdh..y quien tiene la culpa..LOS PAPAS!! I get it..it's alot easier to communicate in English. As a 1st generation Mexican American, I believe it's very important to learn how to speak the Native Tongue and to never forget where you/family come from..que pinche vergüenza.

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[@jonasvalero]

Eh, at some degree yes. But that does not mean you are under the gun to speak the "mother tongue". In the end, who gives a f where you came from, it's more of you present yourself as person. Your cultural background or religion doesn't define you, your personality does.

[@SuperRip7]

Aren't all Mexican Americans first generation?

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

@@jonasvalerothank you Man that’s what I’m saying who gets to judge if you speak English or your native language

[@Get_rid_of_u_248]

You all are starting to forget that Spanish isn't even needed in America. This is coming from a Mexican-American.

[@anthonyrivas3523]

Depends on some areas, knowing another language makes you a better candidate for a job

[@Xerene]

It's not needed but it's an asset. Especially if you're from Texas or California.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

Can you guys say this in a less offensive way cus I don’t know why I feel targeted for speaking Spanish

[@themechanictangerine]

No sabo kid detected😂

[@themechanictangerine]

@@gabrielsstopmotion1959 con 13 eres un niño😂

[@grod805]

Jose Medina freaks me out

[@drrd4127]

It's crazy because these people aren't european, they are Native Americans and they think it is more important to learn a European language like Spanish instead of a Native American Language, that is successful colonisation right there.

[@BadgerCheese94]

Not every Latino is Native American and even those with Native American ancestry are usually mixed. Btw I met some folks from Guatemala who speak the Mam language. They looked fully Indigenous. I only have 1% Native American ancestry. Most my ancestry is from Iberia.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

Ture

[@sanepillow59]

Not anymore crazier than people of British descent speaking English (a German language) when more than 90% of them descend from the native Celtic peoples and not the Anglo-Saxon colonizers

[@d.n.3652]

If it makes you feel any better, the United States has the 2nd highest Spanish speaking population in the world, just after Mexico. And we aren’t even a Spanish speaking country

[@SuperRip7]

Troubling.

[@TheVulgate]

​@@SuperRip7 cope.

[@SuperRip7]

@@TheVulgate English speakers were never given an opportunity to learn a foreign language.

[@TheVulgate]

They offered foreign language classes in high school and there is plentiful opportunities to learn other languages in the United States. You have to work for it bud. No excuses.

[@SuperRip7]

@@TheVulgate Yes how do you explain the 80 percent monolingual rate? It is not exactly Western Europe.

[@rollerboogie]

I did a bilingual class in 3rd grade. Spanish/English. Honestly the whole year felt like a waste of time and I got super behind. You learn a tiny amount of Spanish and it's very distracting from normal schoolwork. I'm all for learning languages but at least my bilingual class felt like a disaster.

[@gamingandheart4070]

That dudes voice…geez.

[@Jinaria101]

Well it’s too late for me to embrace my background because my Spanish is that of a one year old I decided just to drop it and just embrace the inner whiteness I somehow developed from not knowing any Spanish I’m already 30 and it’s gotten to a point where I can’t even read Spanish with a Spanish accent (my Spanish accent is horrible and I use to be teased a lot for it)

[@AlphaDal-if9vv]

Definitely relatable 😆

[@Voicenreason247]

God these are our struggles today

[@patriciaturner9564]

Hello handsome 💞🥰♥️♥️ Greetings from me to you 💞♥️💗💋💋💞

[@MoonOvIce]

It's because they're Americans, and not Hispanic...I wouldn't say Latino since that is a made up term from the US. They want to identify with something else because they are discriminated against in their own nation, so they feel the need to find solace with their "people" from the original countries of their families. Countries that didn't see them being born or even been there at all. It's because of how American society work and its segregation and racial differentiation of the "other". Outside the US, Americans are just that, Americans. They come in all colors, sizes, you name it. No one thinks "here's an Asian American, and here's an African American, and here's a Mexican American... Just...American. These definitions don't exist anywhere else in the world. A white and blonde Mexican person is just that, a Mexican person. Same with a Mestizo, etc.

[@elingles2854]

The cleanest and safest election ever, the most popular President in history. Lets go Brandon...!!

[@SuperRip7]

huh.

[@Alex-eb6je]

I think Brandon is a jerk

[@linkskywalker5417]

Cleanest election ever? Let's just say, a lot of people, not just president Joey Brandon, have cheated and once the results are in, it's too late to go back. That's why cheaters get away with cheating to go to Yale. You've probably cheated too.

[@heydabid]

Normalizing bad language hurts the culture.

[@agustin2812]

Eres un ignorante hablar varios idiomas benefician al mundo Canadá habla inglés y francés

[@dare_challenge_a_god1536]

It's called envy

[@CuteAnimeGirl]

I'm hispanic but I don't speak Spanish. I learned Japanese in college and lived in Japan though! So at least I know 1 other language.

[@tonymontana9754]

the only reason to call them "Latinos" was that they spoke a language derived from Latin. If they are not able to speak that language anymore, they automatically stop being "Latinos". Because his race is not Spanish obviously.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

Ok but they lost there language because they were surrounded by English

[@efrainsanchez3646]

Yaritza y su esencia mexicana lmao 😂😂😂

[@patrickstar1303]

Yo solo como chicken 🤣

[@s.t.5993]

cry me a river. there are so many different languages that second generation kids stop speaking but let’s care only for spanish. either way , parents are number one culprit not teaching their kids about their heritage

[@SuperRip7]

what?

[@dianahaist6073]

I'm hispanic but I prefer to speak english. I don't speak spanish very well, i can't really carry a conversation with anyone in Spanish. but I do understand it really well. My parents spoke fluent spanish but they never taught my brother's and I.

[@stevenl4950]

No sabo kid ha

[@fernandoperez8587]

Spanish unlike English is a beautiful language. English is useful, but not beautiful. Spanish along with French and Italian is often viewed as one of the most beautiful languages. The three are all major romance languages. You should give it another look.

[@gabrielsstopmotion1959]

It’s not anybody’s job to judge your language man

[@jonathanhuerta5460]

I used to be a Yo No Sabo kids. But now I know Spanish. Yo sé el español perfectamente.

[@ericktwelve11]

Good,.don't be a typical gringo, even if minorities are assimilated, they will still be discriminated

[@SuperRip7]

Virtually every Hispanic person knows Spanish. The No sabo kids are an very tiny segment population of the aberration.