contracts and comparison
Comparison and Contrast The United States in a country of immigrants. We can found people from every part of the world. That’s why this country also has many social problems that sometimes people don’t identify. Discrimination is not only about skin color. I learned that discrimination is also about social classes and languages. Not understanding people’s language is a social issue in the United States that have been presents for years. After I read the essay of Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” and the essay of Chang-Rae Lee, “Mute in an English Only world” I figured out some similarities and differences between the two essays that helped me to understand clearly what discrimination of language really means.
Everybody probably has a definition of discrimination. Some people may assume that discrimination is just about skin color as I mentioned before. However, I believe that many people experience other types of discrimination in their daily life and they don’t even know it. When I say “discrimination of language” I do not mean that one language is better than other, nor speak English makes people smarter than other. I mean “discrimination of language” when people do not try to understand what other people say just because they sound different, or when people ignore others because others may do not follow a correct “grammar rule”.
I’ve been living in the U.S. for two years and 3 months. I had felt this type of discrimination many times. I usually try to not feel sad about it. I remember the first time that I asked for information about an English class. The official that was in the lobby of the school asked me for my ID; I didn’t understand the question at first because he was speaking too fast. Then I told him:” Please, say again”, I was shy and insecure. He looked at me with a weird expression in his face and instead of asks me for my ID again, he called another officer and left the situation. The first officer made me feel ignored and discriminated because I
Everybody probably has a definition of discrimination. Some people may assume that discrimination is just about skin color as I mentioned before. However, I believe that many people experience other types of discrimination in their daily life and they don’t even know it. When I say “discrimination of language” I do not mean that one language is better than other, nor speak English makes people smarter than other. I mean “discrimination of language” when people do not try to understand what other people say just because they sound different, or when people ignore others because others may do not follow a correct “grammar rule”.
I’ve been living in the U.S. for two years and 3 months. I had felt this type of discrimination many times. I usually try to not feel sad about it. I remember the first time that I asked for information about an English class. The official that was in the lobby of the school asked me for my ID; I didn’t understand the question at first because he was speaking too fast. Then I told him:” Please, say again”, I was shy and insecure. He looked at me with a weird expression in his face and instead of asks me for my ID again, he called another officer and left the situation. The first officer made me feel ignored and discriminated because I