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Those impoverished Asians ... do their houses look dilapidated and shabby? No, They're immaculate.

People of European ancestry rarely speak their ancestral language in the second generation. My grandfather came from Germany at age 12, spoke with an accent all his life, and I never heard him speak a word of German. I learned it in high school.

The Chinese who came to America from Toisan Province in the 1840s to work on the railroads still speak Toisan at home, nine generations later. Maybe they've shifted to Cantonese and/or Mandarin, but they still speak Chinese.

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