Sorry, I am born to a Pakistani but cannot read Urdu

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Re: Sorry, I am born to a Pakistani but cannot read Urdu

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***** Also…and this just came to mind now and would be an interesting topic of debate. If parents speak Urdu to one another daily…but if they have firmly decided that the kids will not/should not learn it and speak it (And YES there are parents like this)…does this not send a contradicting or double message to kids maybe even on a subconscious level that English is superior to Urdu…or potentially that even one culture is better than another? I can see how that can happen and how that could potentially impact confidence about identity or lead to a disassociation/disconnection/distancing.

So, no opinions on this? Interesting.