As the Hoosiers hosted Mexico’s Under-20 National team for the third consecutive spring, the raucous and lively Mexican fans were heard loudly and often as their team defeated IU, 2-0.
The U.S. Hispanic audience is outpacing the general market when it comes to adopting digital media and technology – so much so that members of the group that have Internet access are spending 50 percent more time with media overall, according to a report released by Yahoo Telemundo.
Forty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a state law in Virginia that prohibited whites from marrying non-whites. The ruling in Loving v. Virginia invalidated similar bans in 15 other states. Study author Brian Powell, a sociology professor at Indiana University Bloomington, said the number of biracial couples has more than tripled since 1970 yet many couples still face challenges, from disapproval or discomfort to outright prejudice.
Going the extra mile: Biracial families in the United States
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Joshua Bell is one of the world’s greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played for spare change, incognito, outside a D.C. Metro station, would anyone notice?
The conversion from mother tongue to English has typically been a three-generation process, said Richard Alba, professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. The adult immigrant arrives, has great difficulty learning English and speaks the mother tongue. The immigrant’s U.S.-born children speak the mother tongue at home, learn English at school and prefer to speak English. The immigrant’s grandchildren speak only English and have lost the mother tongue.
Heritage Tidbits: For Latinos, Two Languages are Better Than One
In a church dominated — at least locally — by Americans of German, Swedish and Norwegian descent, Holy Week music doesn’t usually include the distinctive sounds of trumpets and guitars of the Hispanic community.But the 12 Lutheran churches of Northwest Indiana that support the Gloria Dei Mission have been ministering to the Hispanic community for the past 12 years and believe it’s time the cultures come together during Holy Week.
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