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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parents are mostly 1st gen at those schools, are in Chinese clubs where they speak their language, and push their kids hard. As 2nd gen, your family may feel like an outsider. The kids are nice although there is a subtle ethnocentrism against certain groups, and they stick mostly with other kids in those Chinese clubs.
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Folks, this is not a Chinese thing or an immigrant thing. 
Before we moved to this area we were in one that was majority white and there were cliques of white kids from the same soccer, basketball and softball teams and cliques of kids from the same synagogue. If your child was not into those sports or not Jewish they might have felt like an outsider if they were friendly with these kids in school. There was a smaller group of South Asian kids who were all friendly with each other and did some supplementary programs on the weekends together. As our child did not do those programs they were not really included in the three main groups but it was not a big issue.

Now we are in the area you are talking about. We speak Chinese but our children don't attend the weekend or after school schools so they are left out of those experiences and not as tight with those kids. This is not the dominant clique. There are plenty of other children, the vast majority, who do not attend. Again this is a non-issue.[/quote]

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