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[quote=Anonymous]"As most posters have pointed out, OP, you have made this about race and/or ethnicity and/or nationality, when this really is about patriarchy and gender dynamics.

I'm glad no one took your race bait."

I'm OP have no idea why you think I was race baiting. It doesn't seem like others here do either. Go away if you don't want to contribute to the conversation. We are discussing culture and the conditions under which it does and doesn't get passed to the next generation. I posited that the mom's culture tends to dominate, especially if she's from the US mainstream. Some PPs have noted that even when these white moms do their best to raise the kids with the dad's culture, they face various road blocks. I hadn't appreciated this till reading their comments. Much of this seems to be coming from other women, so it's definitely not all about patriarchy, at least not directly. And it certainly does look like lots of Men of Color are falling down on the job when it comes to passing on their culture, which is surprising and disappointing.

And to the ignorant person who thinks I'm a troll because I indicated I'm a mom and that I'm Latino, as if these are mutually exclusive groupings: You need to do some reading and learning. People who part of the Latino group can call themselves Latino or Latina, depending on how they gender present. These days, people are also using Latinx and Latine for a gender-neutral term.

A few people seem to be operating under the illusion that kids raised in the US with mixed parents can get only one culture. That's not at all how it works. Kids raised here will all get the mainstream culture and they may or may not be raised with their POC parent's culture. It's also important to point out that some POCs are not immigrants and their cultures are from here. African Americans and Native Americans are the best examples. For many Latinos like Tejanos and New Mexicans whose families were here long before the White folks showed up, they have distinct cultures but they certainly aren't cultures from other countries that you could go and visit in the motherland offshore. [/quote]

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