ation. This assimilation usually does not contradict with maintaining close connection with parents and feeling of belonging to the family language and culture. At the level of middle or junior-high schools one can encounter the beginning of two trends in reversed direction. Immigrant kids start to group by ethnicity. But oddly enough it goes along with acute rejection of their parents' and family values. Typical for teens process of social self-identification leaves immigrant youth one-on-one with virtual ethnic role models and dependant on virtual life experience.
             Ethnic self-identification of immigrant youth eclipses in the high school. Notwithstanding the fact that it is easier for them
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