Too often, immigrants' desires to assimilate mean that their children lose out on their culture, as is your son's and son's father's case.
Soledad, yes, that's very true. A very rich cultural heritage is often lost. I'm actually much more interested in the Hispanic culture than my son's father is, and I'm actually the one that teaches my son what little Spanish he knows.
There are deffinately ignorant people in the whole world, but there are a whole lot of ignorant people in America, no doubt.
Popcornbird, ignorant of what? Ignorance is specific to a certain subject ... I'm very ignorant about how car engines work, someone else may be ignorant about calculus. To what are you referring when you say Americans are ignorant? Ignorant of other cultures? Other languages?
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