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Linguistic inequality: Spanish on the job market

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Nic Subtirelu — 15 Comments

I’ve taken a lot of foreign language classes in my life. At different times, I’ve studied German, French, Russian, Spanish, and Japanese. The teachers that I encountered in these classes, not to mention many of my colleagues now, frequently talk about the value…

Myths of melting pots and discarded tongues (part 2)

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — Leave a comment

In my last post, I looked at a story told by a US Senator about how his family immigrated to the United States and learned English. I wrote that I think the stories we tell reveal a lot about how…

Myths of melting pots and discarded tongues (part 1)

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 7 Comments

While the United States government seems intent on providing me a never ending supply of budget dysfunction discourse, I’ve decided to move on to another pressing topic that US politicians have been discussing: immigration. President Obama gave some prominence to…