Thanks for this post it was very informative. My daughter's birthmother speaks this language and my research indicates that 15,000 people in the U>S> do to. What really struck me was the idea that an education may only be profitable after generations have made the investment. There are not enough jobs so that an education may not have any benefit in a person's lifetime there. We live close to a large immigration area and it is interesting to put things in perspective. Truckloads of people from Guatemala spending their money at Walmart seeming so underprivledged to us citizens. Yet this seemingly poor population are living so much better here. Are we really lucky to be able to have all that we have and miss out on the knowledge or enlightenment that having no chance at an American lifestyle can bring? Yes we have a lot but it is limiting in some ways. I know that most would say to be free from this kind of poverty is a blessing and it is. Still we are removed from reality as the great economic downturn so vividly reminds us.