There are no exceptions. They dream about the children drifting between French and English as they bustle about the kitchen while they, as parents, read The New York Times and listen to jazz.As white people age, they start to feel more and more angry with their parents for raising them in a monolingual home. At some point in their lives most white people attempt to learn a second language and are generally unable to get past ordering in a restaurant or overpronouncing a few key words. This failure is not attributed to their lack of effort, of course, but rather their parents, who didn’t teach them a new language during their formative years.White people believe that if they had been given French language instruction when they were younger, their lives would have turned out very differently. Instead of living in the United States, they would be living and working abroad for the United Nations or some other organization with headquarters in Switzerland or The Hague.Generally, white people prefer their children to speak French.
