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As an international family, who knows lot of other international families, I hope you understand that we have to be VERY protective of our native countries' cultures and habits. We take it very seriously. It has nothing to do with bias against the USA.

This is because the host country will be PREDOMINANT in our children's lives. The host culture will seep in without any kind of effort, while the language, manners and cultures of the countries of origin have to be force-fed in order to be integrated completely.

I lived in foreign countries as a child (foreign to my parents' origins), and absorbed my host countries' cultures so easily! Meanwhile my mother had a terrible time trying to teach me her language and culture. My father abandoned any efforts to teach me his language, although he cooked his country's foods.

So now my children live in the USA, despite the fact that neither myself nor my husband are originally from this country, and we listen to our country's news in the language, we pay for a weekend school for our kids where they can get one of our native languages taught by teachers with a diploma from our country, and generally expose them to all kinds of cultural things from our countries.

I'm not saying these people you know aren't going a little too far. Maybe they are. But it's better to start out this way, because Americanisms will quickly engulf all their efforts once their child starts school, even if they find an international or British school.

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