{"id":7880,"date":"2013-01-30T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2013-01-30T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:02:25","slug":"the-u-s-needs-to-embrace-its-latino-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/the-u-s-needs-to-embrace-its-latino-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Needs to Embrace its Latino Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Commentary written by <strong>Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau<\/strong> and <strong>Julie Barlow<\/strong> for the <strong>Globe and Mail<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/commentary\/the-us-needs-to-embrace-its-latino-personality\/article7864634\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7884\" alt=\"The U.S. needs to embrace its Latino personality\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-28-US-needs-to-embrace-Latino-personality-300x162.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-28-US-needs-to-embrace-Latino-personality-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-28-US-needs-to-embrace-Latino-personality.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Strangely, Americans see immigration reform as a way to \u201csolve\u201d a problem, when really it represents a historic opportunity for Americans to embrace their country\u2019s unique Latino personality \u2013 in the same way that English Canada acknowledged its French component 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Latino culture and the Spanish language are not \u201cforeign\u201d to the United States. They were present on the continent before the foundation of the United States. In fact, the 21 (other) Spanish-speaking countries in the world consider the U.S., at least partly, as one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Many elements of Americana \u2013 the dollar sign, the dollar itself, ranch and cowboy culture, barbecues, mustangs and more \u2013 are Latino in origin. Spanish was the first European language spoken on U.S. territory. The oldest contracts, writs and charters date to the founding of St. Augustine, Fla., in 1565 by Spanish settlers \u2013 42 years before Jamestown and 43 years before Quebec City.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/commentary\/the-us-needs-to-embrace-its-latino-personality\/article7864634\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary written by Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau and Julie Barlow for the Globe and Mail.\u00a0 Strangely, Americans see immigration reform as a way to \u201csolve\u201d a problem, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,54,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}