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When your child rejects their heritage language

My eight-year-old daughter came home from school asking why we have to speak Spanish at home when all her friends only speak English, and I don't know how to explain that losing our language means losing ourselves.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The natural desire to belong can create a generational rift that threatens cultural continuity.

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