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Spanish-speaking has long been a fraught part of Latino identity formation, and there are many reasons why second or third generation Latinos may not be able to speak it well \u2013 not least of which is a powerful social stigma that for decades encouraged assimilation at the expense of preserving Latino cultural heritage. 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\nBack in the day, speaking Spanish outside of the home was discouraged and even punished. In the 1960s and 1970s, students were subject to paddlings and corner-time for speaking Spanish in school. But even today, without such overt penalties, it is proving difficult to pass the language on to next generations of US-born Latinos.
\nA recent Pew Research Center study found that across the United States, young Latinos are speaking only English at home. Fox News Latino reports that in 2014, 37 percent of Latinos aged 5 to 17 didn\u2019t speak any Spanish at home \u2013 a 7 percentage point jump from 2000. This trend isn\u2019t just limited to children and teenagers. 30 percent of Latinos aged 18 to 33 only speak English at home, compared to only 20 percent in 2000.
\nStill, despite the growing prevalence of non-Spanish speaking Latinos in the US, the language issue is still thorny for those who find their identities or Latinidad questioned over not being able to speak Spanish.
\nThis tension \u2013 the questioning: Am I Latino enough? Am I “American” enough? \u2013 is perfectly captured in this spoken word performance by Noel Qui\u00f1ones\u2026
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