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This forum post is dated 06/15/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.

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06/15/10 14:53

Joaquin Salazar

Santo Domingo, love Uruguay

Bilingual/bicultutal

My title is chosen with the willingness to tread on a very slippery subject. Right: bilingual versus bicultural. Experience in this area has produced some very rough results. First of all, no one will dispute the value of learning foreign languages. If fact this may be the most valuable educational experience we can give our children.

But, and this is a big "but", putting an Uruguayan child in an imitation of an American or British school just for the sake of learning English, can dive that child headlong into a long neurotic tunnel.

A child must be very clearly a cultural citizen of some nationality with it�s way of thinking, habits and customs, manners of speech and mannerisms.

To watch a child who ends up not being either Uruguayan or American or British nor French, not being anything really, is not pretty to watch.

The bottom line is that it is impossible to be "bi" cultural. It�s either "Los reyes magos" or "Santa Claus"!

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