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[quote=Anonymous]I find it is much more about the POC parent and how connected they feel to their culture.  I'm the POC dad and I was raised in a bilingual household, but I'm American-born.  We don't have much emphasis on my parents native language (although I am bilingual) other than for the kids to be able to say things like "I love you" "Happy Birthday" and so on to their grandmother.  But since my parents emigrated to the US in the 1950's this isn't that big of a deal.  My mother is pretty used to either language.  But culturally, we are very tied to our ethnic heritage.  My mother was a cooking instructor, so I'm the primary cook in our household and I incorporate a number of my mother's recipes in our cooking.  We celebrate a few holidays from our ethnic background and I like to teach my kids the customs that I grew up with.  But we are a primarily American household, mostly because I was raised that way.

I know quite a number of mixed race families and although the mothers do tend to have more influence on the family customs, POC fathers who are very tied to their heritage convey that to their children. We have neighbors where the father is South American and they visit his country of origin annually to visit family.  The kids are a bit more Latino than many others.[/quote]

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