{"id":6594,"date":"2012-09-06T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2012-09-06T20:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:16:54","slug":"english-language-programming-for-assimilated-latinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/english-language-programming-for-assimilated-latinos\/","title":{"rendered":"English-Language Programming for Assimilated Latinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/181886\/spanish-language-television-upfront-and-fall-seaso.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6596\" title=\"MediaPost.com\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-09-06-English-Language-Programming-for-Assimilated-Latinos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Fascinating article in MediaPost.com about how TV networks are scrambling to put together English-language programming for assimilated Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>It should come as no surprise that even \u201cassimilated\u201d (non Spanish-speaking) Hispanics want to be able to watch <em>telenovelas<\/em>. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world watch <em>telenovelas <\/em>from Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil, dubbed in their native languages. <em>Telenovelas <\/em>are shown across Africa, Asia, and Europe, and are wildly popular in places as unlikely as Croatia and Greece.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why do people love them so much? Simply put, they are pure escapism: far-fetched, tear-jerking stories played out by beautiful actors, in beautiful settings. \u00a0Many U.S. Hispanics were exposed to these irresistible and addictive TV series early in life. It\u2019s no wonder they want to be able to watch them in English!<\/p>\n<p>With the size (50 million) and staying-power of the U.S. Hispanic population (there was a Hispanic population in the United States before the United States was even a country!), TV networks know this market will keep growing for some time, even if its primary language is English, and not Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/181886\/spanish-language-television-upfront-and-fall-seaso.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article from MediaPost.com \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information about the history of the Spanish language can be found in our new book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/en\/the-story-of-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">The Story of Spanish<\/a>, (to be released in April 2013, St. Martin\u2019s Press).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/en\/the-story-of-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Story of Spanish\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/The-Story-of-Spanish-Thumbnail.png\" alt=\"The Story of Spanish\" width=\"51\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating article in MediaPost.com about how TV networks are scrambling to put together English-language programming for assimilated Latinos. It should come as no surprise that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}