I come from a bicultural home and my entire extended family is very multicultural. I loved having access to more activities, more holidays, more food that a lot of my friends. We knew that we did Xmas with one side and ate tamales, and Hanukkah with the other side and ate latkes. My brother and I each chose what was important to each of us in creating our own identity. (Our friends helped come up with names for us - MexiJew is a popular one.) We enjoy being special in our particlular ethnic mix. I think the Pollards are right in encouraging cultural relativism - this is what we do/believe, but other people might have something different and that's ok, too.

My daughter is part Latina, part Jewish, part long-time EuroAmerican, and she's in a daycare with Chinese, Indian, white...all sorts of kids. They all learn about each other's traditions and holidays, and she's learning so much, I love it.