HispanicHeritageNotesML17 


 * SPANISH HERITAGE NOTES **


 * Over the past 200 years more and more Spanish people immigration to the United States, In about the year of 1850 there was only about 3,000 Spanish people lived in the United States. In the year 1900 - 1910 about 15,000 Spanish-Speaking people came here to the United States. Today we have over 38.3 Million Spanish-Speaking people living in the United States, and all I have to say about it and that is that it is going to keep expanding and growing and probably in the further about year 2020 we could possibly have 40 Million Spanish-Speaking people living in the United States or maybe we could have more than 40 Million Spanish-Speaking people in the United States. There is over 410 million native speakers in the whole world in the year of 2010.


 * Spanish is the official speaking language in about 20 countries and the most popular Spanish-Speaking country is Mexico with a total of 120,286,655 as of 2014 and there is a total of 105 million native speakers in Mexico. There are a total of two names to the Spanish language: esañol (Spanish) and castellano (Castilian). Many countries in South America say "castellano" as the way they say that they say Spanish in Spanish but Mexico and the United States on the other hand, we say "esañol" and in a bit in Africa. In Canada there is a total of 100,000+ Spanish speaking people and in lower Spanish culture like for a example: Australia has a little over 20,000+ Spanish speaking people in there, so there seems to be more Spanish speaking countries in the South America And North America region, mostly because Mexico is one of the most popularly Spanish speaking hot spot in the Spanish nation.


 * There is Spanish speaking states in the United States with: New Mexico and somewhat of Texas and California. Mexico lost almost half of the northern territory gained from Spain in 1821 to the United States. In The Year Of 1898 there was a battle of Spanish-America War, the United States took control of Cuba and Puerto Rico as American territories. in the year 1902 For decades, the U.S. federal government strenuously tried to force Puerto Ricans to adopt English to the extent of making them use English as the second language of instruction in their high schools, but was completely unsuccessful and retreated from that policy in 1948. Puerto Rico was able to maintain its Spanish language, culture, and identity because the relatively small, densely populated island was already home to nearly a million people at the time of the U.S. takeover, and it was never hit with a massive invasion of millions of English speakers like the vast territory acquired from Mexico 50 years Spanish speaking US citizens are the fastest growing linguistic group in the United States and also television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003.


 * Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in United States secondary schools and of higher education. Like I said there is some states in the United States that have Spanish culture and the most popular know state is New Mexico. New Mexico is thought to have Spanish as an official language alongside English because of its wide usage and legal promotion of Spanish in the state of the United States. But its confirmed that New Mexico has no official language assigned to that state. In Texas, English is the state's official language but however the continual influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants increased the import of Spanish in Texas, I think that it's because of the Texas state bordering Mexico and many Mexicans move into the United States and they most likely enter by going into Texas.


 * The culture of Puerto Rico recognizes Spanish and English as official languages; Spanish is the dominant first language and like i said English is somewhat classified as the second language. More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in fall of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and with a total 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled and 14% in French. Mexicans moved to United States as they were being forced in the confusion of Mexican Revolution from 1910–1917. Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political unstable upon getting independence. A Spanish food that is in both the U.S and Mexico is the Taco and it was first made in Mexico and later on it moved up to the United States and became the corn shell AWESOMENESS that we all know and love today. I think that just about wraps this Essay up and as we can all see now is that the Spanish culture is more cooler then i thought and thats is why we need to help keep it growing and growing by the minute and keeping it ALIVE!


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**THESIS STATEMENT:** I believe that there is a good way to keep the Hispanic Heritage alive and it's to believe that we can make sure that everyone will never forget the Spanish culture and the hispanic heritage by explaining their religion, their fashion, and their music, lets never forget the way Spanish people lived and enjoyed there life!