Back in 2006, when i was still fairly active posting on doktorko.com, i wrote a blog post called "Why Can't Filipino-Americans Speak Filipino?" It was (if i may say so myself) a decently-researched, fairly coherent rant lamenting the Filipino parent's apparent lack of interest in teaching his/her American-raised children their mother tongue. The original post can be found here. (I've actually imported it into this blog as well, but i'd like to send some traffic Dr. Barias' way.)
Anyway, the evidence seems to keep coming in. Now they're saying that being bilingual could possibly stave off Alzheimer's disease.
I guess these kids will have just one more reason to complain when they grow up. On the upside, they might forget their angst when they hit sixty.
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