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05/30/2008: "In Miami, Spanish is becoming the primary language"

The 49-year-old flower shop owner and Miami native said her inability to speak "espanol" makes it difficult to conduct business, seek help at stores and even ask directions. She finds it "frustrating."

In many areas of Miami, Spanish has become the predominant language, replacing English in everyday life. Anyone from Latin America could feel at home on the streets, without having to pronounce a single word in English.

"The Anglo population is leaving," said Juan Clark, a sociology professor at Miami Dade College. "One of the reactions is to emigrate toward the north. They resent the fact that (an American) has to learn Spanish in order to have advantages to work. If one doesn't speak Spanish, it's a disadvantage."

According to the Census, 58.5 percent of the county's 2.4 million residents speak Spanish - and half of those say they don't speak English well. English-only speakers make up 27.2 percent of the county's residents.

[ If English speakers don't like it they have to reduce the proportion of hispanics. This doesn't seem to occur to most of them. ]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080529/D90V6OEO0.html

Replies: 2 Comments

on Saturday, May 31st, Osama bin Laden said

Give me some of what you're smoking, melchior.

on Friday, May 30th, melchior said

To speak about a subject we must learn first.
In history of America there's only about 300 years of people speaking english.
In America´s history only in the north they speak english, many more speak Spanish, Portuguese, French or Native languages.
So english speakers' are a minority.
and you know what happens to minorities....