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Article: More Than One Out of Ten U.S. Hispanics Are Unfamiliar With American Holidays, Survey Says.
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- PR Newswire
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- October 2, 2007
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Halloween, Thanksgiving Top the List
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- With the holiday season almost upon us, fully 15 per cent of the nation's 40 million Hispanics -- or six million people -- likely will not be celebrating, this year. The reason: Basic unfamiliarity with traditional American holidays, such as Halloween and Thanksgiving. That fact was one of various key findings made by Synovate Market Research last August, when it polled 500 U.S. Hispanics at various levels of acculturation. Another was that an overwhelming majority of them (65 per cent) would welcome learning more about the holidays as a way of improving their lives. Seventy-five percent ...