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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote] Hee hee!! So true! ABC woman, do you realize how you sound? Are you seriously saying that if people can't learn to speak a language with a perfect accent they should never try at all?? Sheesh![/quote]

I'm a guy actually.  We're not against YY, we simply didn't want to stay at an immersion school where we, and our bilingual kid, were the odd ones out.  We don't care how we sound, we just go quietly about the business of teaching our kid about our language and culture, like Diaspora Chinese all over the world.

It's hardly a crime to respect one's cultural traditions to the point where one isn't comfortable in an immersion school setting without Chinese administrators, many other parents or kids.  My brother sends his kids to an immersion school in NYC's Chinatown where he is comfortable (and where his kids don't have the perfect accent, like mine).

It's just wasn't a lot of fun to be approached by one parent after another who wanted to draw on our cultural knowledge when we turned up at our kid's school, and often got defensive about the fact that so few other bilingual kids were there.  We found the scene tiring and strange, but surely wouldn't have if we weren't Chinese.  Being around parents who think that they know a good deal about Chinese culture, generally because they spent several weeks in China picking up an adopted baby girl, got old for us.   But we certainly don't consider ourselves representative of every ABC family who's tried YY.

Maybe the poster who started this thread (clearly not Chinese) would like school, most parents do.

Wow. What a snob. Glad you're going away to quietly educate your kid about your language and culture in isolation.

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