WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARN

          
          Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
          
          1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
          
          2) The farm was used to produce produce.
          
          3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
          
          4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
          
          5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
          
          6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
          
          7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
          present the present.
          
          8 ) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
          
          9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
          
          10) I did not object to the object.
          
          11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
          
          12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
          
          13) They were too close to the door to close it.
          

From U.S. Census Bureau: Facts about Cuban Americans.

Cuban Americans have acquired an enormous amount of wealth and prosperity in an extremely short period of time; no other immigrant group has achieved this as quickly as the Cubans. Many immigrants have never achieved it at all, despite being in this country far longer than Cubans.

Second-generation Cuban-Americans were more educated than even Anglo-Americans.

More than 26.1 % of second-generation Cuban-Americans had a bachelor's degree or better versus 20.6% of Anglos. Thus Cuban-Americans in 1997 were approximately 25% more likely to have a college degree than Anglos. Other Hispanic groups lag far behind. Only 18.1% of South Americans had a bachelor's or better. Puerto Ricans, despite being U.S. citizens by birth, recorded a disappointing 11%; Mexicans only 7%. In 1997, 55.1% of second-generation Cuban-Americans had an income greater than $30,000 versus 44.1% of Anglo- Americans.

Thus Cuban-Americans are approximately 20% more likely to earn more than $30,000 than their Anglo-American counterparts. All other Hispanic groups lag far behind in average income.

In 1997, 36.9% of second-generation Cuban-Americans had an income greater than $50,000 versus 18.1% of Anglo- Americans. Cuban-Americans were twice as likely to earn more than $50,000. Also, approximately 11% of Cuban-Americans had incomes greater than $100,000 versus 9% of Anglo-Americans, and less than 2% of other Hispanics. 

Cubans comprise less than 4% of the U.S. Hispanic population, Mexicans 65%, Puerto Ricans 10%, Central and South Americans 11%, and "others" 10%.  Yet of the top 100 richest Hispanics in the U.S., more than 50% are of Cuban descent (ten times what it should be on a population basis), and 38% of Mexican descent. The rest is scattered among all other Hispanic groups.

Cuban-American and proud!!!



WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARN