Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Hispanic Acculturation in the U.S.

An Associated Press-Univision poll sponsored by the Nielsen Company and Stanford University finds that Hispanics are generally interested in becoming acculturated into the majority U.S. culture. Here are two statistics I find interesting:
Three out of four foreign-born Hispanics express a sense that their fate is linked to that of other Hispanics, while only 37 percent of U.S.-born Hispanics hold similar views.

Hispanics who say Spanish is their dominant language — as well as foreign-born Hispanics — are more likely to believe that it is important to blend into U.S. society than those Hispanics born in the United States.
Those two findings seem to conflict with each other, what do you think? The source of the article is Fox News.