The (Asale), 23 worldwide, have stated this Thursday in a statement “their concern about the recent withdrawal of the”. La Asale, which brings together corporations in Latin America, the US Spanish -speaking community of the country “, so” regrets that a resource as relevant as the Spanish website of the White House has been retired. “
The Spanish academies indicate that Donald Trump, which this week meets a month in the White House, “does not correspond to the value of a language that more than 600 million people in the world speak today”, of which almost 500 million are native, according to the data of the Cervantes Institute, and constitutes a “rich cultural heritage, which treasures the work of universal writers such as Cervantes, Rubén Darío, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Camilo José Cela, Gabriel García Márquez or Mario Vargas Llosa ”. In his first mandate as president, Trump took the same measure against the Spanish language.
Spanish is “, with a growing development in the economic field, teaching, cultural industries, the media, translation and the digital environment,” adds the note. At present, “the Spanish -speaking purchasing power represents 10% of the world GDP,” it is also highlighted that 24.2 million people “learn the tongue throughout the world and the Spanish contents of the most outstanding websites exceed expressed in French and German. ”
Precisely, about the situation of Spanish in the US, it is indicated that it is the second country with the most Spanish speakers, after Mexico, and that “a good part of them born and rooted from generations.” In addition, Spanish is “the second most spoken language in that nation, after English, and is the main in the associated free state of Puerto Rico, where it shares co -officiality with English.” “Spanish is the most studied foreign language and 60% of students choose Spanish as a language of preference. This country concentrates more than eight million Spanish students. ” It also emphasizes that “the increase in bilingualism in professional sectors has had great impact on public life.”
Finally, it is pointed out that the weight of the US Spanish in the universal community “requires stimuli that favor its development in the face of the challenges of the future”, so the Asale considers it necessary to “maintain and increase all the resources that reflect the representativeness social of an essential language for the country ”.
