Language plays a very important role in many immigrant families. Immigrant children learn English very fast while parents still use the language they usually speak. Children pick up new things very fast. Children at younger ages are easier to adapt using English as their primary language and the American custom because "School is the launching pad that sends them into a different world day after day, distancing them from their roots" (Arax 3). This causes a …showed first 75 words of 1534 total…

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