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Originally Posted by Stealhead
If you look at most any ethnic group that has been in the US for a few generations the trend will be about the same.Very few Italian-Americans would be able to have a conversation with an Italian.Most Japanese Americans do not speak Japanese.Most people of Scandinavian decent can not speak Swedish,Norwegian or Danish.
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In my part of the country we have a large number of Mexican emigrants, so we hear a lot of Spanish (or Mexican Spanish, which is much like American English). I once had a question about a Spanish word, so I naturally asked a coworker whose last name was Guttierez. I was shocked when he said "Hey, man, I'm third generation. I don't speak that crap."
