Reply #52: People, even highly educated people, often make that mistake.

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You hear comments that kids from a specific country or ethnicity should be raised in "their" culture or they should be "taught" their language.

The latter is silliness.

The former at least can be given a reasonable interpretation: Racism and ethnic prejudices will most likely cause a non-white kid to turn to those in the same ethnic category for comfort, for friendship, and they should have the same cultural underpinnings so they can fit into that group.

Of course, that leads to silliness, too, if taken too far. Which, IMHO, is not very far at all.