prez_al said:
Where do I begin??
You can't conclusively PROVE that by doing so someone will suddenly get a 5 pt. improvement in their VR or RC score, but I can see how kids can get mixed up (Didn't overly affect me though).
No, there is conclusive evidence showing a strong correlation between performance in school and parents speaking english at home. One caveaut, most of these studies were done on spanish speaking families.
And, nobody is expecting a HUGE increase in average scores for the VR, but, if you look at the MCAT stats for any give year they look like this:
Asian average: VR 7.2 BS 8.5 PS 8.5
White: VR 8.2 BS 8.2 PS 8.2
Those aren't exacts from anything, but you can get them at the AAMC website. I'm just saying that if asian parents focused on bringing up their kids speaking primarily english in the home it would probably look like this:
Asian average: VR 8.5 BS 8.5 PS 8.5
I'm not trying to belittle or offend anyone here. I'm marrying into a vietnamese family and I have nothing but the utmost respect for the educational successes of most asian cultures. I'm just making a simple postulation. I have no clue why he was so butt-hurt.
Also, I think it's nice to speak my native language, it's called preserving our culture. Society itself is already a crazy melting pot, why make the situation worse? The one thing I can't stand are the asians who can't speak a word of their native language, so I kinda agree with you on the more than one language point.
Yeah, of course its nice to speak more than one language. It can only help you in life. Culture preservation within the home is perfectly fine...no problems there. In fact, one of the things I love about my fiance's family is getting out of my "down home" environment and heading into their house which has some definite influece from their culture. Its a nice change.
And, I have to disagree with learning english through your friends. Even english speaking american kids don't speak english properly most of the time...the idiots try to sound like they're coming out with a new rap album, so their english just sucks!
That's a low blow...
I know
But, come on...I couldn't resist. Can you blame me? He came at me all angry and being a dickhead and he totally opened himself up.
Most definitely!! But we're hopefully going to be dentists and I was told the more languages you are proficient in, the more clients will come to you. My dentist has mediocre english skills and he's successful as 95% of his clients are ASIAN!!!!!! (I might as well take up Mandarin now...) Hell, we learn English in school and from socializing with our friends.
My fiances dad is a DDS and speaks Viet, Eng, and Span. Location is the biggest factor in what language you should speak. His vietnamese never gets used at work, its all english and spanish. Where he practices, its all spanish. He's not "fluent" but proficient and that's all that counts. However, if he weren't proficient many of those clients may not go to him.