Thank you for this, it will earn me points with my football mad son when I meant A-Arnold!
The other subject you wrote about hit home to me - I was disappointed to learn as a child that my Dad, who is half Polish, cannot speak more than a couple of words. But when he told me the reason that his dad made that decision was because he didn’t want his sons to be othered like he was, and feared them having a different accent to his peers. It gave a sad, but very real and considered reason for not sharing his mother tongue.
Thank you for sharing. Intergenerational trauma around language can be so heavy and devastating. It still happens way too often today. It is complex and multilayered and I wish parents never had to choose between protecting their children and passing on a heritage language. And yay on the football points :)
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Thank you for this, it will earn me points with my football mad son when I meant A-Arnold!
The other subject you wrote about hit home to me - I was disappointed to learn as a child that my Dad, who is half Polish, cannot speak more than a couple of words. But when he told me the reason that his dad made that decision was because he didn’t want his sons to be othered like he was, and feared them having a different accent to his peers. It gave a sad, but very real and considered reason for not sharing his mother tongue.
Thank you for sharing. Intergenerational trauma around language can be so heavy and devastating. It still happens way too often today. It is complex and multilayered and I wish parents never had to choose between protecting their children and passing on a heritage language. And yay on the football points :)