It falls to the children of immigrants to work to keep their parents culture.. Its infinately harder, when you have also lost your parents language-- but English is not the the reason for culture loss-- it is a much broader problem, of which language is one of the most evident markers.
Hopefully the current climate of it being socially ok to have ethincity will stay with us for a long time. My girls and I have made family project of finding out more about our heritage. I am 2nd,3rd, or 4th generation US depending on which grand /great grandparent we look at. Most of whom in order to fit in, so they deleted as much of their prior country traditions as possible. Of course one of the nice parts of rebuilding our ethnicty is being able to chose the traditions we like, without the "but we always done it that way" argument.
CJ
