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With almost 60 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. [38] Spanish is increasingly used alongside English nationwide in business and politics. Media in Spanish has also become influential outside of native Hispanophone circles. [39 ...
Spanish refugees fled to Mexico following the fascist victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936–38), with some 50,000 exiles finding refuge at the invitation of President Lázaro Cárdenas. [85] Following World War II a larger wave of refugees to Latin America, many of them Jews, settled in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Latin America refers to a cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily in the form of Spanish and Portuguese (excluding Azores islands), and to a lesser extent, Italian dialects, French (excluding Quebec) and its creoles. There is no precise or official inclusion list.
Brazilians may identify as Latin Americans, but refute being considered Hispanics because their language and culture are neither part of the Hispanic cultural sphere, nor Spanish-speaking world. In Spanish, the term " hispano ", as in " hispanoamericano ", refers to the people of Spanish origin who live in the Americas and to a relationship to ...
A video showing changes over time on a similar map; The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released, The 2020 map is the provisional version of the WVS wave 7 map with the final map to be released in Fall 2021 upon the completion of the wave. The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released, 04 Feb 2022
In recent years changing attitudes among non-Spanish speaking Filipinos have helped spur a revival of the language, [78] [79] and starting in 2009 Spanish was reintroduced as part of the basic education curriculum in a number of public high schools, becoming the largest foreign language program offered by the public school system, [80] with ...
The Organization of Ibero-American States also includes Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea, in Central Africa, [1] [2] but not the Portuguese-speaking African countries. The Latin Recording Academy , the organization responsible for the Latin Grammy Awards , also includes Spain and Portugal as well as the Latino population of Canada and the ...