A Jaime at the lunch table
Meet Jaime. Jaime is a male, 15-year old Chinese-American high school student. He attends a high school whose population comes primarily from low to middle income families. Jaime was born and raised in America. Both of his parents were immigrants; coming over to the States roughly 20 years ago. They are very traditional. At home, Jaime’s parents speak Chinese to him, and he generally responds in English as he is not quite fluent in his heritage language yet. This arrangement works quite well for this family since Jaime’s Chinese vocabulary increases with every conversation he has with his parents, and his parents’ English vocabulary increases in the same vein. Needless to say, Jaime and his parents maintain a close and healthy relationship with each other.