[休闲娱乐]American Born Chinese Kids(转载)

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I'm an ABC, or an American Born Chinese, which basically means I was born and raised in America but my parents are Chinese. (Taiwanese, actually, but ABC sounds cooler than ABT). I've grown up in Southern California in Orange County, in a city where about 15% of the people are Taiwanese or Chinese, and 30% are Asian, and so I've grown up with a lot of Chinese, Taiwanese, and other Asian classmates.
　　
　　What I wanted to know, since it seems like there aren't that many other ABCs in this forum (at least not as many as there are Chinese learners or people from Asia), if those who have lived in these kind of communities, if it seems to you that Chinese culture is kind of lacking among the children.
　　
　　While in 2nd generation immigrants, most children lose the fluency their parents have, it seems to me that all the Chinese kids here not only lack the ability to write Chinese [which is, well, expected especially if they don't take Chinese school">, but some can barely hold conversations in Chinese at all! If they do, they usually HAVE to use Chinglish, as usually their vocabulary is limited to what they would hear at home.
　　
　　In fact, many of them don't even talk back to their parents in Chinese, but when their parents ask them things in Mandarin or Cantonese they reply in ENGLISH.
　　
　　While yes, they're American so I mean, they might feel more comfortable replying in English, there are MANY Koreans at my school, too, most of which are in the same 2nd generation situation, yet always write notes to each other in Korean and speak in Korean. Same with the Japanese people here.
　　
　　I always thought it might be because its much easier to become a native speaker of a language if you can read it, but I really don't know. and I do admit that I myself don't have a great grip on Chinese. I'm better than almost all of the ABCs here [partially since I actually WANT to learn and speak Chinese">, but I have a vocabulary limited to speaking to my mom, and I can only write about 500 characters.
　　
　　So, for those of you who might've also grown up or have lived before in communities in the United States like this, perhaps in Orange County, San Gabriel Valley, Houston, or the San Jose area, any thoughts?