The Moral Issue of Latinos Continuing To Speak Spanish, The Language Of The SS Conquistadors

""Marlen Garcia, a Democrat and mayor pro tem of Baldwin Park, which is in the proposed new district, said her community had been anxiously awaiting the proposed district maps in hopes that they might bring better representation for low-income Latinos. She said she hoped a new representative would be a Democrat and Latino.


Since she cast her first vote as a teenager growing up in Boyle Heights, Garcia said, “I knew I needed someone in office who was my color skin, spoke my language and understood my living conditions and culture. It had a huge impact.”

".....spoke my language...." This Blog continues to be bewildered and befuddled by why Mexican Americans or Dominicans or South Americans continue to value Spanish. This Blog understands why Iberians cling to Spanish, it is their native language, but Mexicans? Spanish was IMPOSED on Mexico by the Conquistadors, who were basically a 16th Century version of the Waffen SS.

It is as if the Holocaust survivors got to Israel and taught their kids to speak German, the language of their killers, rather than Hebrew, the language of their new nation.

“Media consumption reveal that almost all Spanish-dominant U.S. Hispanics, and almost of half of those whose dominant language is English, spend several hours a day watching or listening to Spanish-language television or radio.Unsurprisingly, the survey of 1,521 respondents across the country disclosed that 90% of Spanish-dominant Hispanics watched Spanish-language TV and 75% listened to Spanish-lingo radio.

Among English-dominant Hispanics, four in 10 turned to either Spanish-language radio or TV for their daily fix of news, sports and entertainment.”

How can any Hispanic aka Latino indulge in the language of the people who slaughtered and murdered, raped and castrated their ancestors?

"WASHINGTON – English only?

With Hispanic enrollment surging in schools, many Spanish-speaking parents are having trouble helping their children with homework or communicating with U.S. teachers as English-immersion classes proliferate in K-12.

An Associated Press-Univision poll highlights the language and cultural obstacles for the nation’s Latinos, who lag behind others when it comes to graduating from high school.

The findings also raise questions about whether English-immersion does more to assimilate or isolate — a heated debate that has divided states, academics and even the U.S. Supreme Court. Arizona recently ordered its schools to remove teachers with heavy foreign accents from English-language instruction, while the Obama administration is seeking to push more multilingual teaching in K-12 classrooms.

“The language barrier is still a serious risk factor for Hispanics,” said Michael Kirst, a Stanford University professor emeritus of education who helped analyze the survey. Even with many schools replacing Spanish with English in classrooms, for a student evaluated as learning English, “the odds of completing high school, and particularly college, significantly drops.”

Just 20 percent of mainly Spanish-speaking parents say they were able to communicate “extremely well” with their child’s school, compared with 35 percent of Hispanics who speak English fluently.About 42 percent of the Spanish speakers said it was easy for them to help with their children’s schoolwork, compared with 59 percent of the Hispanics who speak English well.

Children of Spanish-dominant parents also were less likely to seek help with homework from their families. Fifty-seven percent of those parents said their children came to them with school questions. That’s compared with 80 percent for mainly English-speaking Hispanic parents, who also were more likely to send their children to relatives or friends for answers.

The hardships often center on language for Latino parents, who value a high school diploma more than the general population and want to support their children, according to the poll. But educators say the problems can be cultural, too, if some Hispanic parents feel less comfortable acting as vocal advocates for education, such as meeting with teachers or lobbying for an extra honors class.

Under federal law, if the parents’ English is limited, schools must provide notices and information about student activities in a language they can understand. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is now reviewing some school districts to see if students are being denied a fair education.

“It’s difficult for me,” said Carmen Arevalo, 30, who arrived in the United States 12 years ago from El Salvador and doesn’t speak English. Arevalo has an 8-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter in Miami public schools and says she has constant challenges with communication, even though many of her children’s teachers speak English and Spanish.

“Sometimes I feel uncomfortable, because sometimes I don’t know what they will be saying to the children,” Arevalo said as she watched her son play soccer.

Roxana Montoya, an El Salvador native in Miami who is learning to speak English, says she often struggled to help her 12-year-old son with school. Montoya said she would check the Internet to translate her questions for teachers and spend hours going through his middle-school coursework. “He’d get out at 3 and at 9, we still wouldn’t be done with the homework,” she said.

The educational stakes are high.

Roughly 1 in 5 people in the U.S. speaks a language other than English at home, with Hispanics representing the largest share, according to 2009 census data. Hispanics also now make up one-fourth of the nation’s kindergartners, part of a historic trend in which minorities are projected to become the new U.S. majority by midcentury.

Still, Hispanics are nearly three times as likely than the general U.S. population to drop out of high school, and half as likely to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Other AP-Univision poll findings:

_Many Hispanics lack confidence in the quality of education at their local public schools. About 47 percent said they believed the K-12 schools were excellent or good, compared with 48 percent who described them as “fair,” “poor” or “very poor.”

_About 63 percent of Hispanics believe it would help the U.S. economy “a lot” if more students completed high school, compared with 40 percent for the general population.

Citing some of the racial gaps, Education Secretary Arne urging parents to take more responsibility. He said the government will require districts to get input from communities on ways to improve underperforming schools before receiving federal money.

The Education Department also wants to devote an additional $50 million next year to promote English learning. Part of that will be used for research and development of “dual-language immersion,” a bilingual approach gaining favor among many linguists.

Dual-immersion is a shift from the direction of states such as California, Arizona and Massachusetts, where voters have largely banned bilingual classes. On a broader level, some 30 states and numerous localities have passed laws making English the official language, a move that critics say will lead to more cuts in bilingual programs.

The debate has splintered the Supreme Court, which sided 5-4 with Arizona last year in saying the federal government should not supervise the state’s spending for teaching students who don’t speak English.

Doris Chiquito, 30, of Miami, who was born in the U.S. to Ecuadorean parents, is among those who would like their children to value Hispanic culture. Chiquito, fluent in English, says she enrolled her 11-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter in bilingual classes so they would also speak Spanish and not “feel ashamed of being Hispanic.”

"......so they would also speak Spanish and not “feel ashamed of being Hispanic.” That one line encapsulates what is so maddening about Hispanics clinging to Spanish. Ms. Chiquito is from Ecuadorean parents.

This is a brief history of the Conquest of Ecuador by the Conquistadors. "Rumiñahui, Born in Pillaro in the modern province of Tungurahua, Ecuador, ... When Francisco Pizarro imprisoned Atahualpa and held him in the Ransom Room, Rumiñahui Inca troops marched towards Cajamarca to deliver a huge amount of gold. But when the Spaniards broke their word, executing Atahualpa and slaughtering his troops, Rumiñahui returned to the kingdoms of Quito and ordered the Treasure of the Llanganatis thrown off a cliff into a lake or crater.

Learning of Rumiñahui's resistance, Pizarro sent his lieutenant Sebastián de Benalcázar North to take Quito and bring whatever treasure he could recover. The forces of Rumiñahui and Benalcázar met at the Battle of Mount Chimborazo, where Rumiñahui was defeated. However, before the Spanish forces captured Quito, Rumiñahui ordered it burned to the ground, and the Ñusties (temple virgins) killed to preserve their honor. Rumiñahui was eventually captured, tortured and killed by the Spanish but never revealed the location of the treasure."

Ms. Chiquito, by speaking Spanish is not honoring her Ecuadorean ancestors, the Ñusties . who were slaughtered to protect their virtue; by speaking Spanish Ms. Chiquio is saying she is not ashamed of the Conquistadors, and what they did to her ancestors, the massacres and rapes of her people.

It should be a MORAL IMPERATIVE for Hispanics to jettison Spanish, the language of the people who butchered and enslaved their ancestors; who tore down their ancestor's places of worship, all the while violating the nuns who worshipped there.

The official policy of Mexico is hatred for Hernan Cortes, the Butcher of Aztecs; the man who destroyed native Mexican culture. In the National Palace, the Diego Rivera murals disparage Cortes. There are NO official statues of Cortes in Mexico; he is an official pariah-yet every day Mexicans honor his memory by speaking his language. It makes no moral sense for the people of LA RAZA to do that.

The shame of being Hispanic comes not from speaking English, it comes from speaking Spanish, the language of the butchers of the Hispanic people. Speaking English liberates the Hispanic from being the shameful victim of the Conquistadors; speaking English brings Diego Rivera's mission of liberation and redemption to fruition.

For Hispanics to continue to speak Spanish means this- they actively support drinking from the Coloreds Only Water Fountains; they support riding at the back of the bus, they support not being served at the counter.

Speaking Spanish is not a cultural issue, nor a personal issue, it is a MORAL issue. Dumping Spanish would be the final insult to Cortes, the final liberation from Cortes; the final liberation from the crippled self image of being the victim of the all conquering Conquistadors.

(The Original Spanish Speaking Immersion, fond memories for Spanish Speakers)

Meanwhile in Vietnam, the Vietnamese are gearing up for the competitive 21st Century by learning...ENGLISH.“…….the Vietnamese German University (VGU), opened in 2008 in Ho Chi Minh City. A French-backed technology school in Hanoi will follow.

VGU has around 220 students, enrolled in engineering and economics programmes which are taught, in English, by visiting German professors.”