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Is there any possibility that Spanish will become the second official U.S. language alongside English?

Do you think the number of spanish-speakers will grow up?

Important note: I´d like that your response is respectful to my culture, just as I respect fully the English language and Anglo-saxon countries. Thank you.

I see Spanish taking on greater significance in the U.S., and not just in border areas like where I live. What a lot of English-only speaking Americans convenientally forget is many Hispanics can and do learn english, but logically prefer to maintain spanish amongst themselves.

Spanish isn’t just words. It’s a connection to the motherland, be it Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala or any other. For families who’ve been living in the U.S. for several generations, it could mean America; that of a friend of mine has lived in Texas for 5 generations, her family’s ranches are original Spanish land grants.

Due to assimiliation, intermarriage + lazyness, the average U.S. citizen doesn’t speak (or even learned) the language of their ancestors who came here (for the most part) between 1 and 10 generations ago. Even those who know a few words .. what do they know about the culture?

Did the average American’s ancestors (be they from China, Greece, Italy, Germany, Ireland, present-day Africa, etc.) speak english when they first came to this country? Most knew little if any, sadly it was often lost within a generation or two. If there was
a significant number of ex-pat Americans in another country, I am 10000% (no typo) sure they’d speak english together, and rarely mingle with their hosts. So it’s not so different now is it? Need further proof? Just look at San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, or Brits in Spain (how many of them speak spanish?)