Emotional abuse of immigrant children by their immigrant parents probably contributes a lot to to why the kids hate their ancestral language(s).

Source: Me.

I'm trying to hang on Cantonese and Mandarin as much as possible, but it's so fucking hard because Cantonese is so triggering of my traumatic memories, and Mandarin just reminds of the CCP. Like... in my mind its so hard to separate langage from parents or a regime.