Posted on: February 21st, 2008
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Tomás' Picks ]
Tags: beer, bilingual, Hillary Clinton, newspaper, population
MILWAUKEE is a striking example of how much America owes to German immigrants. The city is a paradise for beer-swillers and sausage-scoffers (it was the scene of the “sausage summit” between Bill Clinton and Helmut Kohl in 1996). The grandest hotel is the Pfister, the local theatre is the Pabst, and one of the main streets is North Teutonia Avenue. The phone book lists 40 pages of Schmitts and Schmidts.
And yet today this frozen chunk of Greater Germania is being transformed by people from much sunnier climes. Milwaukee’s 80,000 or so Hispanics make up almost 15% of the population. A company called El Rey Mexican Products owns a tortilla factory and five shops that sell everything from hot sauce to Mexican-bottled Coca-Cola. There are several local bilingual newspapers, including Voces de la Frontera. Pentecostal churches are popping up in disused stores and offering fiery services in Spanish.”*
*From: http://www.economist.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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