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To: Ilaine who wrote (60414)	12/7/2002 2:23:19 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 281500

<What about Brazil? They speak Portuguese, not Spanish, so they aren't Hispanics? > Correct. Visit Rio or Sao Paolo, and you will see the difference. BTW, Brazilian Portuguese is different to Portuguese Portuguese! (learn that whilst localising some software)

To: Ilaine who wrote (60414)	12/7/2002 2:35:15 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I've heard that the US will have the second largest Hispanic population at the end of the decade, after Mexico. Is this true? I was in California a bit more than a year ago when the news broke that English is no longer the number one language in the state. There are now more people whose first language is Spanish in California than those whose first language is English. Of course, English is still the cultural infrastructure. While that will never change it will evolve. Paul