Monday, June 17, 2002
World Cup Soccer, the Search for Independence and Bilingual Education
Watching the United States - Mexico soccer game this morning, I was struck by the opening shot of the stadium, with its name evidently permanently listed in both Korean and English. Also caught up on press reports on how the World Cup games have divided immigrant parents and their Americanized children: Dad roots for Korea or Mexico while the children cheer for the U.S.A.
This sort of thing is not new. Children of a certain age insist on being different from Mom and Dad. So it has been and so it will always be. Unfortunately, bilingual education activists may now feel compelled to add "rooting for the Old Country" to the curriculum along with preventing these children of immigrants from learning English: "today, children, we will memorize the traditional soccer cheers used in Mexico City's Azteca stadium from 1990 to the present."
|posted by Jim on 6:49 PM|
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