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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Chinese Americans have used their heritage schools to ensure that their kids know their culture and language for generations (e.g. the NYC Chinese Benevolent Society, a giant historic building in Chinatown which served as my dirt cheap summer camp). Chinese do this wherever there are ethnic urban communities, and have only started looking to Mandarin immersion ES programs for help in the last decade. [/quote] You grew up in NYC -- there has been a significant Chinese population there for 100+ years, right? Of course they had resources for Chinese-Americans, immigrants, etc. I just looked it up; where I grew up (Chinese started arriving in the early 80s), there was no weekend Chinese language school until 1988, when my Chinese-American friends and I were in high school. And it was just beginning then. Thus, they were illiterate but fluent in Cantonese. And certainly didn't speak Mandarin. [/quote]
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