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5:00 am on 11/29/2012</div><div class="date published time">USA</div></div><div class="entry-content" style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px">No, Latinos don’t speak “Mexican,” and Mexicans don’t all speak Spanish.</p><p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px">
The City University of New York’s Institute of Mexican Studies is hosting a workshop today called <a href="http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cuny-mexican-studies-institute/documents/IndigenousWorkshopflyer.pdf" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(155,53,32)">“Mexico’s Forgotten Languages</a>,” to educate others on the diversity of languages spoken in Mexican communities in the U.S.</p>
<p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px">According to the <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/may/28/some-ny-immigrants-cite-lack-of-spanish-as-barrier/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(155,53,32)">U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey</a>, the number of Central and South American Indian language-speakers in the U.S. was about 13,500 between 2005 and 2009.</p>
<p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px">[media: video]</p><p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px"><span style="font-size:1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center">However, Leslie Martino-Velez, Associate Director of CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, who has been studying the Mexican indigenous community for nearly a decade, says that the numbers are most likely more but are hard to precisely decipher.</span></p>
<p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px">“It’s hard to pinpoint numbers, because one of the challenges of the indigenous Mexican community is that there’s a lot of stigma of being indigenous,” she says. “So when they come here, they may not say they are indigenous or teach their kids their language and culture.”</p>
<p style="font-size:1em;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px"></p><p style="font-size:1em;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://nbclatino.com/2012/11/29/a-growing-number-of-mexicans-in-the-us-dont-speak-english-or-spanish/">http://nbclatino.com/2012/11/29/a-growing-number-of-mexicans-in-the-us-dont-speak-english-or-spanish/</a></div>
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