Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
A growing number of parents in Southern California are enrolling their children in Chinese heritage schools.
The weekend classes are a regular part of growing up for many first generation Chinese Americans. It's seen as a way of maintaining cultural identity. But as one Chinese American journalist learned, a new, diverse wave of students is attending for another reason: to learn Chinese.
Multimedia journalist
is a first generation Chinese American and spent many a weekend in such classes. She recently returned to the classroom, this time as an observer researching for a piece that would be published in The Atlantic.
Cleo stopped by Take Two to share what she saw.
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