iguanamon
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| Message 1 of 1 28 July 2013 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
Having been in Miami a few days ago and seeing how popular "El Nuevo Herald" is there, I was a bit surprised to see this in the NYT today- More Latinos Consume News in English, Report Finds. The article has a link to the 44 page pdf of the Pew Hispanic Center Report.
Article Excerpt:
New York Times wrote:
Eighty-two percent of Latino adults surveyed said that at least some of the news they followed in 2012 was in English, an increase from 78 percent in 2006. Nearly a third of Hispanics, 32 percent, said they got their news exclusively in English, according to the report, compared with 22 percent in 2006. At the same time, the consumption of Spanish news decreased among Hispanic adults, with 68 percent saying they got some of their news in Spanish, compared with 78 percent in 2006.
Part of what is driving these changes is the shifting demographics among the 52 million Latinos in the United States. Immigration of Hispanics to the United States is slowing, and more of the Latino population was either born or raised in the United States, increasing the level of English fluency. More than half of the adult Latino population in the United States, 59 percent, speaks English proficiently.
“U.S. births are going to take over Hispanic population growth going forward,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, the director of the Pew Hispanic Center and a co-author of the report. |
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Edited by iguanamon on 28 July 2013 at 3:17am
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