Essay 1 purple
Cultural identity
Language is an important part of life we use it every day to communicate with each other.
But some people from different countries find it more than a way then just to communicate especially those who immigrate to America and don’t know English yet or are struggling to speak it especially in public. In Richard Rodriguez “aria memoir of a bilingual childhood” Richard struggles to maintain who he is dealing with cultural identity with his Spanish language the only way to communicate with his parents now having to give it up however in Anzadua’s “how to tame a wild tongue” unlike Rodriguez she is pressured to lose her heritage by society but instead makes her stronger with it. In Richards’s article he goes through the trouble of having to speak two different languages from having to speak English outside of his home during that time his home was of a safe zone of sorts being able to be himself and not some different person like he was outside of his home. But after some events that transpired he is faced with the option of having to speak only English both at home and outside also during the time of only trying to speak English he begins to lose touch with his family and is faced with an ultimatum to abandon all ties with his heritage and become a different person to fit into society as a regular English speaking American. Though this is during the time when race Issus’s where still a big problem throughout the country I can’t say I don’t blame him for what he did coming from my point of view when I came to this country I only spoke Spanish and didn’t know a single word in English and when I started to learn English I had an accent to go with it I was terrible at even worse when I had to write in English. The only thing that I think that he could have done differently is to not abandon his heritage if he didn’t he could have still been the person he was during his childhood and not grow up to become a different person. Though he accepted
Language is an important part of life we use it every day to communicate with each other.
But some people from different countries find it more than a way then just to communicate especially those who immigrate to America and don’t know English yet or are struggling to speak it especially in public. In Richard Rodriguez “aria memoir of a bilingual childhood” Richard struggles to maintain who he is dealing with cultural identity with his Spanish language the only way to communicate with his parents now having to give it up however in Anzadua’s “how to tame a wild tongue” unlike Rodriguez she is pressured to lose her heritage by society but instead makes her stronger with it. In Richards’s article he goes through the trouble of having to speak two different languages from having to speak English outside of his home during that time his home was of a safe zone of sorts being able to be himself and not some different person like he was outside of his home. But after some events that transpired he is faced with the option of having to speak only English both at home and outside also during the time of only trying to speak English he begins to lose touch with his family and is faced with an ultimatum to abandon all ties with his heritage and become a different person to fit into society as a regular English speaking American. Though this is during the time when race Issus’s where still a big problem throughout the country I can’t say I don’t blame him for what he did coming from my point of view when I came to this country I only spoke Spanish and didn’t know a single word in English and when I started to learn English I had an accent to go with it I was terrible at even worse when I had to write in English. The only thing that I think that he could have done differently is to not abandon his heritage if he didn’t he could have still been the person he was during his childhood and not grow up to become a different person. Though he accepted