Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probability, though, the Americanization of Hispanics will be far more rapid and thorough than any Hispanicization of Anglo culture. Businessmen, Roman Catholic clergymen and politicians in Hispanic areas find it useful and sometimes essential to learn Spanish. But an Anglo lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., who took the trouble to learn some limited Spanish now finds that most of his Hispanic clients prefer to speak to him in English. Says the lawyer: "America triumphs over these immigrants as it has over others." A survey of Midwestern Hispanic voters by the Midwest Voter Education Project probably is unrepresentative, since many Hispanics...
Today there are an estimated 300 periodicals serving immigrant readers. Yet that figure offers only a partial picture, since scores of papers are mom- and-pop operations that elude surveys. Many of the papers catering to Europeans have withered away, while the influx of Hispanics and Asians has ( given rise...
No matter what the language, most papers offer a similar menu of reports from the mother country, national news with an ethnic angle, local cultural calendars and profiles about immigrants, including sports heroes, who made the American dream come true. "One thing we are is pro-Hispanic," says Ezequiel Montes...
Mongrel New York, always a port of entry and always a slightly hysterical place, is now becoming even more eclectic, more jazzed up and redolent. Manhattan has a Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park...
Often, of course, the result is something less than Disney World internationalism. On Union Street in Flushing, a Korean jeweler had a neighborhood monopoly until last winter, when a Chinese jeweler opened up next door and started selling identical merchandise. Just before the ill will turned physical, local Korean and...