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Before she started school in the u.s., mita, daughter of immigrant parents of indian origin, used to speak only her home language of hindi fluently. she then learned to speak english in school and attained fluency in both hindi and english. however, as she grew older, she started to feel ashamed of her roots and gave up speaking hindi altogether. this phenomenon is called:

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the answer to this question is subtractive bilingualism
subtractive bilingualism is a situation where a person learn a second language but had to forget the previous language/culture in the process.
In most cases, this phenomenon is caused by overwhelming desire to fit in within a new social group.
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