I read the short story by Gloria Anzaldua, "How To Tame A Wild Tongue". I was stacked and freeze at my computer when I read, " Chicano Spanish is considered by the purist and by most Latinos deficient, a mutilation of Spanish". Besides another quote, " For a people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country in which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English is the reigning tongue but who are not Anglo; for a people who cannot identify with either standtad (formal, Castilian) Spanish nor standard English, what recourse is left to them but to create their own language? A language which they can connect their identity to, one capable of communicating the realities and values true to themselves---- a language with terms that are neither espanol ni inglise, but both." After the thorough reading over the weekend and today; I, kind of get the idea what all these Spanish words mean and how they can to connected to the paragraph. I believe that people who have freedom, eventual will the have the power and knowledge to be successful and productive. Identifying oneself or society should not be judged or procrastinated by other who dominate the culture and the language arena. Some of the words resembled the original English words, for instance "adopcion" meaning adoption . It is chunked and has so much impressive information and well explained. Reading this story made me think that even if the situations are different, in the country where 70 ethincities live together, repression to other languages, cultures and societies fight before extinction.
Your summary is interesting, I don't really understand the part where you say,"I believe that people who have freedom, eventual will the have the power and knowledge to be successful and productive." There are people without the freedom that comes with living in the United States who can "have the power and knowledge to be successful and productive" I don't get how that has to do with language that Anzaldua mention in her article. Other than that I like your difficulty paper.
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