While I can have empathy for her, I do feel for her child because if this is how the mother feel/believe in her heart, then this is what she will impose on her child.

I’m also rather sad for her husband. I would feel very disrespected if my wife felt that way about my culture…then why is she married to me? Or is it likely that he also feels this way and that’s why he married a Caucasian woman?

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I’m glad that you linked these to this article and have addressed this topic, because it is something that I come into contact with frequently. As a coordinator of Dual Immersion programs, I sometimes come into contact with English-speaking white families who want their children to become bilingual. As a white woman myself, I hear all sorts of things that make my blood boil from the same people who want to teach their children spanish. Some parents become very picky about the Spanish-speaking students in the program-they don’t want to send their children to the “other side of town” (i.e. immigrant side of town), they think that the Spanish-speaking kids should be screened before entering the program in order to ensure that they are speaking “proper” Spanish, and the list goes on and on. Every once in a while it is just blatant racism like “The mexicans are taking us over and so I want my kids to have an advantage because they only hire bilingual people now”, but usually it comes in more subtle forms of racism that people might not even be aware of.

Becoming bilingual is so much more than just language. English-speaking parents must accept and embrace that children who become bilingual will take on hybrid cultural identities. If you’re not okay with that, then you are raising bilingual children for the wrong reasons.

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I am shocked at the writer’s thoughts and how conscious she is about how many children check boxes as to whether they are caucausian or hispanic. I think she needs to really experience her husband’s culture and add it to her own, so she can understand that you can have more than one culture and it’s a wonderful, beautiful thing that leaves you more open-minded.

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The terms Hispanic/Latino and the vastly different countries/groups under this umbrella – why are they looked upon with such distaste? I’m sure the article would not have been written as such had the spouse been Italian, or German, or Irish.

Perceptions are hurtful…

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I was married to a man whose parents hail from Cuba and Spain, and proudly called himself a Latino. My son marked his form both Caucasian and Hispanic on the form. Never have I felt a twinge of holding back his heritage, keeping his Spanish from him, in fact I almost begged for Abuela’s flan last night when he came home from visitation!

Shame on our society for allowing such baggage to be carried from generation to generation. We must embrace the fact that we are our children’s first teachers – and that encompasses all aspects of academics, socialization and kindness.