text: how do you help a biracial child, to respect and at least keep some of his non american culture? father is american white, mother is american born but mexican parents and we were raised very much in mexican culture. they have a child , he's my nephew and he doesn't know any spanish and his parents do'nt really teach him about the culture. mother even says "aaa. let him learn spanish if he wants to in highschool" but doesn't make effort to teach him now. should i just give up?  when i was in school it seemed americans and nonenglish speaking mexicans or esl students were in 2 different worlds, and i don't want him to be like that, i wish if he saw a mexican he would say hi and be interested. but i dont know,, i feel like he won't be raised like that. like i've seen other american born kids of mexican ancestry or even asian, who grow up with american culture, and then they do'nt know the culture of their parents, sometimes they try to start learning when they are in college but i don't know.... help? anyone? that should come from the parents....i agree with you that kids should learn/know all of their culture.  that is a part of who they are, and they should be proud of it!  my husband is mexican, we live in mexico...on a boarder town so i can work in the us.  my husband speaks spanish only to our baby, when i am not at home.  i speak english only to the baby.  she will grow up knowing both of her cultures....what a shame for your family to not teach them about their culture.