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Yeah, I think in Indonesia I'd expect mixed kids to at least speak at least one European language (if only English, which even locals try to learn!) and (hopefully) Indonesian. In the US it's more likely that second or third generations just end up speaking English even without being mixed!But at least bule mix kids grow up Multi lingual.
We have this comical situation at work where the person who speaks the most Mandarin is a white guy, while the Chinese-American barely remembers a few sentences -- from taking Mandarin in high school. Makes for an amusing experience at restaurants.
And if the inherited language is less practical (say, a European language spoken in only one country like Hungarian) or have less of a cultural heritage behind it -- the cost vs benefit tradeoff might lean even more in favor of it getting forgotten sooner rather than later.
But food, food gets passed on across generations! Or at least rediscovered, now that we don't really have the unbroken lineage of grandmas teaching mothers teaching daughters (not necessarily a bad thing, guys should cook too)