Hispanic millennials are turning their backs on Spanglish, a slang that mixes English-language norms into Spanish and instead opting for proper American English. “The typical trend is that the first generation prefers to speak Spanish, the second generation is bilingual, and the third generation is generally monolingual,” Jody Agius Vallejo, an associate professor of sociology at USC who studies immigrant integration. But there is more going on than the natural trajectory of how immigrant groups assimilate to become Americans.
The fading of Spanglish could be a response to two separate trends we have seen over the last decade, terrorism and gender-empowerment. READ MORE AT HOLA ARKANSAS
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