I want to help students retain their Spanish langauge and to learn English and retain the two. And that, notes Fuhriman, is the key to providing a bilingual education program that respects the culture of the language minority student while building a new framework for learning. You're looking at maintaining the native language and the native culture of the student while building a new language and a new culture for them. You can't really teach a language outside of its cultural context. You just lose the meaning.
Language is probably the purest form of culture.