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Originally Posted by Capsicum
I don't see these private schools as being anything analogous to "American" expat schools where the parents really do want to keep their kids in a "bubble" away from the locals, and have the kids socialize with other expats only.
The Chinese and Arabic community, try as they might, and as proud as they are of their old world cultures, actually have a hard time preventing their kids from the assimilation that's going to happen within the host society. Otherwise, we'd see that these private schools are full of second, third, fourth generation students of the community, rather than be used by the new immigrants to keep their kids immersed in the homeland's language/culture for only the generation or two that they need the language to talk to newcomer family members.
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No they're not like American schools abroad.
But I'd say that for the parents who do that Saturday morning "heritage schooling" thing with their kids, their expectations are somewhat higher than just keeping it alive for a generation for the reasons you mentioned - even if reality almost always catches up with them.
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