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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Our school community has lots of bilingual (and trilingual) families. It would never occur to me that speaking to eachother in their native tongue would be considered rude or a faux pas. [/quote]

Well, now you know![/quote]

+1. In front of other people who don't speak the language actively excluding them? Yes, rude. Do people come from places with no manners? Wasn't there a thread about how rude it is to turn a back on someone recently and how in most cultures that is rude? This is the same thing. [/quote]

Parents practicing OPOL are excluding the other parent all the time and [b]somehow survive unscathed.[/b] It’s fine.[/quote]

You sure about that?   There's never been a single divorce in such families?[/quote]

You don’t know why they divorce and it’s just as common in monolingual families.

I don’t understand 70% of conversation between my DH and my children, and it doesn’t bother me one bit.[/quote]

Yes, if you feel a certain way that means everyone else feels the exact same way.   Got it.[/quote]

I’m just telling you a very common thing in bi and trilingual families.[/quote]

And I'm just telling you that speaks very poorly of very common bi and trilingual families.[/quote]

Why tho?[/quote]

BECAUSE IT'S RUDE. You're basically saying that teaching your child to be bi or trilingual is more important to you than teaching them manners. And that speaks very poorly of bi and trilingual familes -- that they are raising rude children.

Hate to say it, but many people on this thread may not realize it's the norm to not speak in another language in front of those that don't understand it because they are from somewhere else. But that's the norm here. So now you know.[/quote]

Sounds a lot like a white supremacist cultural norm to me...[/quote]

There are non white people who actually have manners too, you know.   The idea that only white people are educated in common courtesy is pretty racist.[/quote]

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