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To: Lane3 who wrote (15925)	4/4/2006 1:52:29 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541735

In my experience in Amsterdam watching the immigrant communities, the parents can get by in Dutch or English, but stick mostly to their own language among themselves. Their kids, however, speak Dutch everywhere they go together. They always pack the trams. I have seen many, many groups of young Arab immigrant children (maybe they were born in the Netherlands, I don't know) hanging out doing the usual kid stuff. And they always spoke Dutch. Same will happen in the US in a generation or two. Google the term "Tejano", if I remember correctly. It's a generation that moves between and mixes Spanish and English like a duck paddling across a pond, barely a ripple.