Culture – the way of life of a group of people passed down from one generation to the next through learning
Enculturation – learning our native culture(s) in childhood
Acculturation – adapting to another culture
Culture shock – the stress associated with acculturation

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Bilingual baby update

Earlier this week I was hanging out with a friend of mine, her husband and their quite-not-one-year old. They're quite the international family: Mom is a Puerto Rican/American/Jew immigration lawyer, Dad is English, and Baby is a little Puerto Rican JewBrit. Anyway the kid's official first word is "Azha!" which is his way of saying "alla," meaning "over there" in Spanish. He points toward where he wants to go when he says it, too. I teased my friend for managing to give the baby the crazy island accent :-P

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