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San Antonio teen finishes 9th in (US National) Spanish (spelling) bee
Houston Chronicle ^ | July 10, 2011, 10:30PM | FRANCISCO VARA-ORTA

Posted on 07/11/2011 11:38:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise

The stumble came in the word zulo, which means "hideout" in English, for San Antonio's sole contestant in the first-ever National Spanish Spelling Bee.

Linda Duann Rodriguez, about to start her freshman year at East Central High School, confused the letter "z" with the letter "s" in the competition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Saturday morning. After the judges told her "incorrecto," she exited the stage as the third student disqualified and watched as the finalists continued competing.

...After two hours, Evelyn Juárez, a seventh-grader from Carlos F. Vigil Middle School of Santa Cruz, N.M., emerged victorious after conquering the last two words in the competition: kanindeyuense, meaning a resident of a part of Uruguay, and bizantinismo, meaning Byzantinism.

...The inaugural National Spanish Spelling Bee, organized by the New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education and the Alliance for Multilingual Multicultural Education, is modeled after New Mexico's statewide Spanish Spelling Bee, 15 years strong.

New York and Oregon also have started state spelling bees, but Texas hasn't followed suit. ...Briseño, executive director of NMABE, said ESPN has approached the group to televise the bee and will film the competition for a promotional video to attract advertisers.

While the inaugural bee is small, he said ESPN hopes it could become the popular cousin of the English-language bee it broadcasts to a major cult following...

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: aliens; culturewar; identitypolitics; newmexico; spanish; spellingbee

1 posted on 07/11/2011 11:38:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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Ping!


2 posted on 07/11/2011 11:42:24 AM PDT by HiJinx (Old Cold Warrior)
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To: a fool in paradise

I have mixed feelings on this. I applaud the young person for striving for excellence, but I have trouble with activities that reinforce a subgroup’s tendency to not adopt our country’s language and such.


3 posted on 07/11/2011 11:49:26 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: a fool in paradise
How does the Spanish Spelling Bee reinforce assimilation?
4 posted on 07/11/2011 11:49:36 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President. Alea iacta est!)
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To: HiJinx

Who gives a Flying F!


5 posted on 07/11/2011 11:50:44 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Mikey_1962

I hear the illegal immigrants are here only to do the work that no Americans want to do and then I read how they should be elligible for in-state college tuition and student loans with no social security number.

Sounds like they want some higher paying jobs in a US economy when the citizens are already over 10% unemployed.

Someone is being dishonest in making the argument for supporting a foreign colonization of Estados Unidos.


6 posted on 07/11/2011 12:01:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
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To: a fool in paradise

This is a direct assault on our culture,by the language of failure.


7 posted on 07/11/2011 12:11:23 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: a fool in paradise

How do you spell “multiculturalismo no funciona”?


8 posted on 07/11/2011 12:24:52 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: DonaldC

My feelings aren’t mixed at all. This is the United States and we speak and spell in English. Spanish spelling bees belong in Mexico or Spain. Here in Texas we deal with hordes of people who refuse to learn English, and that’s just the legal ones. Signage everywhere is in two languages, we have a ton of Spanish cable channels, Spanish radio stations, etc. It is divisive and expensive.


9 posted on 07/11/2011 12:29:58 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: HiJinx
In Austin 20 years ago, a group of young Machos with their silver tipped boots and black clothing all told me in that excited "We gonna take ober!" style that someday soon "you gonna speak Spahneesh!"

Didn't mention to them that I already did.

When will the soft twinkies of America get it? This is an invasion and takeover. They'll tell you straight to your face that's what it is and then say, "whatcha gonna do 'bout it, Greengo?"

And the answer is nothing, because all the Americans are afraid of their own government if they say "well we're going to throw you out, this is our land".

The Mexicans are simply setting up Mexico on American soil because they realize that the Americans are too weak to defend it. The "civil rights" laws have gutted the ability to resist: invasion is treated as a civil right by the judiciary and the bureaucracy.

10 posted on 07/11/2011 12:40:11 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: a fool in paradise

It’s been over 160 years since Mexico ceded to the US what is new New Mexico. In many parts of the state, Spanish is still the first language and the state constitution requires official documents and voter ballots to be printed in both languages. NM is a minority Anglo state with Hispanics and Native Americans making up almost 56 percent of the population.

Now having said all that, there are many here whose Spanish heritage dates back several hundred years and are fully assimilated except for the last name. An interesting aside is that a friend’s wife is Hispanic and works in a bank. Many Spanish speaking (laborers, many illegal no doubt) cash their paychecks at a window with a teller having an Hispanic name. However, she is Americanized to the extent that when they speak Spanish to her, she doesn’t understand and they get angry and berate her.

The gap here between those who have been here for generations and those who have only recently jumped the fence is much greater than would be expected. Just like a century ago immigrant Irish were called “mics” and Italians “wops”, so it goes with the conflicts between old and new Hispanic cultures in New Mexico.

As far as the subject of the article, a Spanish spelling bee in New Mexico is of little importance given the state’s long bilingual history. However, it is of much more importance in other states where Spanish is encroaching on English as the primary language and events such as this do not aid in the goal of a single assimilated nation.


11 posted on 07/11/2011 1:05:47 PM PDT by CedarDave
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NM list PING! Click on the flag to go to the Free Republic New Mexico message page.

(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

12 posted on 07/11/2011 1:07:47 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Our man in washington
How do you spell “multiculturalismo no funciona”?

Like this.


13 posted on 07/11/2011 3:17:21 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: a fool in paradise

My congratulations to this young girl. Good job Evelyn.


14 posted on 07/11/2011 3:44:18 PM PDT by pallis
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To: McLynnan
Hey, I tied for third place in my state in a French-language contest. Should I have learned English only? Mais non!
15 posted on 07/11/2011 4:34:48 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: GAB-1955

Your point? I speak both French and Spanish, but the language of my country is English.


16 posted on 07/11/2011 5:37:45 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: McLynnan

There’s nothing wrong with a school having a Spanish spelling bee. Are they compelling people to speak Spanish? No. I encourage bilingual people, though I insist the language of government and law be English.


17 posted on 07/11/2011 5:59:34 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The fun will start when a non-hispanic kid wins the contest one year.


18 posted on 07/13/2011 5:36:01 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: cvq3842; Revolting cat!
The fun will start when a non-hispanic kid wins the contest one year.


19 posted on 07/13/2011 4:25:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes, there would be fireworks, that’s for sure.


20 posted on 07/14/2011 7:42:38 AM PDT by cvq3842
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