{"id":7520,"date":"2018-06-07T18:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T22:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/12\/whats-so-un-american-about-being-bilingual\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:41:32","slug":"whats-so-un-american-about-being-bilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/whats-so-un-american-about-being-bilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s so un-American about being bilingual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest column for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/06\/07\/opinion-whats-so-un-american-being-bilingual\/673858002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong>, Furman student Whitney Maness \u201920 asks the question: \u201cWhy are bilinguals, and Spanish bilinguals in particular, considered un-American?\u201d While acknowledging that the majority of Americans speak English, she wonders \u201cwhy can\u2019t two people speak their native language to one another in a personal conversation without encountering prejudice or discrimination?\u201d Maness is a Spanish and communication studies major from Rock Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest column for The Greenville News, Furman student Whitney Maness \u201920 asks the question: \u201cWhy are bilinguals, and Spanish bilinguals in particular, considered un-American?\u201d While acknowledging that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":8116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}