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							<title>Overcoming My Insecurities With Learning Spanish as a Latina</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[For me, learning Spanish has definitely been about the journey, not the destination]]></description>
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							<title>Eugenio Derbez Apologizes After Criticizing Selena Gomez&#8217;s Spanish in &#8216;Emilia Pérez&#8217;</title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The Mexican actor was critical of Selena Gomez who is not a native or fluent Spanish speaker. ]]></description>
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																												<media:text>Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez poses on the red carpet of the film “Radical”, at the Morelia Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Berenice Bautista)
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							<title>How I&#8217;m Finding My Confidence Again in Speaking Spanish</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laysha Macedo]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[For many first-gen Latinxs, our relationship with the language and even our confidence can change over time.]]></description>
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							<title>Latina Mom Verbally Attacked by Racist for Speaking Spanish in Disneyland</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sofía Aguilar]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[A woman began screaming racist remarks including "I hate Mexicans" and "You don’t speak Spanish in America. It’s an English-speaking country." ]]></description>
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							<title>I&#8217;m a First Gen Chicana Studying Spanish and It&#8217;s Brought Me Closer to My Roots</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sofía Aguilar]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 02:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Growing up, one thing I knew I never wanted to do was learn Spanish. I hated the sounds of it in my house, how my dad was constantly speaking it while on the phone with relatives in Mexico, how my whole family spoke it to each other between  speaking English at parties like a secret]]></description>
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							<title>I&#8217;m No Less Latina Because My Spanish Isn&#8217;t Perfect</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Nowadays it feels like any minor offense can get your “Latinidad Card” revoked. If you don’t like spicy food, you’re not really Mexican, your hoops are too small, or your skin isn’t the right shade of whatever expectation they have put on you, then you’re not, according to those standards, not Latina. And forget it]]></description>
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							<title>Sesame Street Tackles Prejudice Faced by Spanish Speakers in U.S.</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Sesame Street continues to strive to educate the younger generation and in order to better do that they&#8217;re working on reflecting real issues affecting kids today. They recently introduced their first Black humanoid Muppets, father and son duo Elijah and Wes, as part of their the “ABCs of Racial Literacy” a resource that&#8217;s part of]]></description>
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							<title>Latinas Settle Lawsuit with CBP After Being Stopped for Speaking Spanish in Montana</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[U.S. citizens Ana Suda and Martha “Mimi” Hernandez, were detained in 2018 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for speaking Spanish while shopping at a local convenience store in Havre, Montana, and this week they reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the Trump administration. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Montana shared]]></description>
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							<title>Latinas Attacked by White Women for Speaking Spanish in Boston</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[A Latina and her 15-year-old daughter were &#8220;brutally assaulted&#8221; by two white women in East Boston near the subway station on Feb. 15 reportedly for speaking Spanish, according to a local NBC affiliate. The mother, who only wants to be identified as Ms. Vasquez to protect her daughter,  called on the police to investigate the]]></description>
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							<title>I Can Totally Relate to AOC&#8217;s Struggle With Spanish Fluency</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Johanna Ferreira]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[One of the things I’ve always appreciated about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is how relatable she could be sometimes. On Thursday, the Congresswoman tweeted about doing an interview in Spanish about the Green New Deal on Univision Nueva York. She kept it real about how even though she grew up speaking Spanish, she still finds herself]]></description>
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							<title>Passengers Begin Speaking Spanish After Racist Tells Woman &#8216;Stop Speaking Spanish&#8217;</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Racist interactions where people are told to stop speaking Spanish—or their native language— are seemingly running rampant but helpful onlookers are a rarity. In a recent plane interaction on the way to New York,  author and Bravo&#8217;s &#8220;Jersey Belle&#8221; star Jaime Primak encountered a racist passenger who told her &#8220;please stop speaking Spanish.&#8221; Immediately, she]]></description>
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							<title>Another Ignorant Person Disrespects a Latina for Speaking Spanish</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Araceli Cruz]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I am sick and tired of ignorant people in this country telling others that they must speak English. Their brainless notion that &#8220;this is America,&#8221; which means one can only speak English and no other language is absolutely insane and needs to stop. This time the verbal assault came from a Texas official who told]]></description>
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							<title>White Woman Stops Racist Attack Against Latinas For Speaking Spanish</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hip Latina]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[There’s been a noticeable uptick in verbal attacks on people from diverse backgrounds since Trump has taken office. We&#8217;ve seen multiple attacks made against the Latinx community this year alone and numerous cases where they&#8217;ve been discriminated against simply for speaking Spanish. This spring two Latinas were harassed by a Border Patrol officer for speaking]]></description>
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