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55-year-old woman attacks employees of a pizzeria, claiming that there were Spanish-language programs on the establishment's television. Image: TikTok screenshot by Mazwi143<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Browsing through various social media, it is not uncommon to find several videos of how Americans (mostly white) attack people when they hear them speaking Spanish, arguing that they are in the United States and therefore must communicate in English. This action has a name: Hispanophobia.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Royal Spanish Academy, Hispanophobia is the irrational fear or aversion to things Hispanic or Spanish, including the language, which has become the second most spoken in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hispanic Council<\/a> It states that 57 million people speak Spanish in the United States, and the number of Spanish speakers in the country is growing by around one million annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, the number of Spanish speakers was 53 million; by 2020, it rose to 55 million, while in 2022, that figure exceeded 57 million, reflecting that the Hispanic community is the group that grows the most at the population level each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

An analysis by Ana Celia Zentella of the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Metropolitana (UAM) in Iztapalapa, Mexico, suggests that the initial formation of national identities is based on language and it is much easier to focus on language or identity than to explain complicated issues of political or civil rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere old social relations have become unstable, amid rising general insecurity, belonging to a common language and culture can become the only certainty in society, the only value beyond ambiguity and doubt,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

From that perspective, he says, Americans who do not speak standard English are deficient, and those who speak other languages are even less equal; those who do not speak English are not worthy of equal protection under the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

For various analysts, nationalist exaltation was widely promoted during the presidential campaign of former President Donald Trump, who among his promises was to deport immigrants, build a wall on the southern border of the United States, return the jobs that industries had taken to Mexico, renegotiate the Trilateral Free Trade Agreement and expel Muslims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Republican appealed to a sense of nostalgia for a mythical era when the country had been \u201cgreat.\u201d At that time, he called on the electorate to recover that greatness, which, he said, had been lost because immigrants, African-Americans and other minorities, including Latinos, had taken over the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump won, and made the phrase Make America Great Again (MAGA) a banner for many who already had racist behaviors. Empowered, they demanded that immigrants speak \u201cAmerican,\u201d often without keeping in mind that America is a continent, not a country and much less a language.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a few months ago, a video on Tik Tok went viral. In it, a 55-year-old woman attacked employees of a pizzeria, arguing that there were Spanish-language programs on the establishment's television.<\/span><\/p>\n

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