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When Your Child Rejects Their Heritage Language

My daughter refuses to speak Spanish at home anymore and says it embarrasses her at school, but if she loses the language she loses her grandmother who only speaks Spanish.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent watches their child sacrifice connection to family and culture for social acceptance, creating an impossible choice between belonging and preservation.

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“Where Are You with Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”

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