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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yu Ying DOES attract families with Chinese-speaking kids actually.  Just not PP or his friends apparently. [/quote]
Who are these kids? When we were at YY (not long ago) we talked to every Chinese-speaking kid in the student body, in Chinese, at one point or another; there were only 3 or 4 (one actually was not ethnic but was born in China). My family immigrated from Taiwan when I was a teenager, so I speak Mandarin and Fujian dialect. There were 2 dozen ethnic parents who spoke some Chinese (half a dozen fluent), but only a few kids you could have a real conversation with in a dialect. At our heritage language school there are a dozen DC kids who speak a dialect at home, and speak it well. These are mostly JKLM families. Chinese-speaking kids at YY are essentially an urban myth, and if that's" trashing YY" and "racist" talk, guilty as charged. 
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No dog in this fight, but I'm curious.  Don't all the kids at YY speak Chinese?  Can't you have a conversation with all of them in Mandarin?   Why is it important to be able to converse with parents in dialect?

Is this like Arabic, where older non religious people would as soon speak French to people who don't speak there dialect?[/quote]

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