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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Wow. What a snob. Glad you're going away to quietly educate your kid about your language and culture in isolation.[/b]

Hardly. There's a good-sized Chinese community in the Metro area, centered in Rockville, that does all sorts of things, just not at YY.  We also get involved in China-oriented events at our IB school.

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Great you're ABC and part of ABC culture...  I'm the other Asian person, born and raised partially there, at the beginning of the thread.  Have many ABC friends but have no desire to have DC learn from ABCs.  You know you are not considered "Chinese" by those born and raised in China but Americans - and no matter what you want to believe, your accent is "off". [/quote]
I knew this was going to devolve into a pissing match of who's more Asian, but I think the PP above who would like more ethnic Chinese in a Chinese immersion school has a good point.

My family is Russian. My DS is in a Russian-language preschool, where business is conducted entirely in Russian.  About 75% of kids are Russian, the other quarter are American with some sort of family connection to mutterland. All teachers are native Russians.  And that's why they have my business.  If there was an odd American teacher there (in addition to a dozen Russian ones) who happened to be fluent in Russian and our culture, I may have considered it. But to have DS in a ostensibly Russian preschool where the overwhelming majority of personnel speak foreign-accented Russian and don't know the culture natively? Nyet. May as well do Bright Horizons.[/quote]

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