Hey Yas & Ali, are kids in Canada, who speak Arabic at home, allowed to speak Arabic in school? @ConfessionsExMu @aliamjadrizvi
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Replying to @Jerre_Peeters @aliamjadrizvi
What do you mean? Like do the schools here restrict children speaking other languages? No. You hear all sorts of languages walking through any school hallways here.
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I think the danger of letting them speak another language (language they speak at home) is that there will be groups. A group of Arabic speaking kids, a group of French speaking kids, a group of...
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Replying to @Jerre_Peeters @aliamjadrizvi
Yes. That happens. It’s unfortunate to see the pods by identity, I agree. It also stunts their learning because it limits how often they speak the common language of the country-but really, there’s no way to control that. I wouldn’t advocate for restricting ppls language choices.
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I’d like to say that over time mixing naturally happens, but that just not true. When I was young and there was one Korean girl and one Pakistani guy, sure...everyone played together, but not anymore-now everyone has an ethnic pod /1
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And if you choose to hang out w a different pod because you have a common interest (not identity) then you’re ostracized for ‘trying to be white’. Asian kids who don’t stick to their pods are called bananas for ex (yellow on the outside/white on the inside) /2
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