The Hispanic Threat: Does Spanish Threaten English in the United States?

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In the United States, non English monolinguism does not survive past the immigrant generation and bilinguism vanishes as a rule starting at the 3rd generation. In the last 40 years, the new wave of immigration took place in a time of tolerance and even encouragement for diversity and multiculturalism. It’s been recently proven that most immigrants loose their native language as rapidly as the 2nd and 3rd generations of last century. Even Spanish does not escape this evolution, even with a massive immigration and linguistic concentration phenomenon. There remains an intergenerational linguistic legacy, of course as a minority, which distinguishes Spanish from other immigration languages. This could predict a stable development of intergenerational bilinguism.