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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
spanish speakers are the only ones who've recently immigrated to the US in sufficient numbers to kind of "take over" certain areas where learning english isn't terribly important. most other immigrant groups push themselves and, more importantly, their children to learn english so that they can succeed in american society, often to the detriment of keeping the mother tongue alive.
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But you'd think you'd see a similar shedding of immigrant languages in Canada too, since our society is similarly structured to yours - with the notable exception of enclaves (sometimes quite large) dominated by Hispanics.
Though it's also true that Canada has a higher percentage of its population that is foreign-born.