Language Strikes

Luis Molina

English 105

Amanda Reyes

Language Strikes

            People who speak different languages like Spanish, English, etc. or speak different forms of the same language are definitely discriminated against. People all over the world are expected to speak that country’s or place’s language and if they don’t they are judged as being too lazy for not learning the language or speaking that certain language in a specific way. As I wrote, in other countries people judge others for not speaking the same language in a specific way; in America for example, we judge other Americans who speak a different form of English like when people speak Ebonics (forgive me for using that word) even though as Jamila Lyiscott,”even the most articulate Americans sound foolish to the British. Gloria Anzaldua made a great point when she wrote how she was punished during school when she was younger for speaking Spanish and she had to take speech classes to get rid of her accent. I know from personal experience that all of this is true, I grew up as a Latino-American and being taught that here in America I can only speak Spanish at home and I can only speak “American English.” America is supposed to be the melting pot of the world, so people should be open to other languages or other forms of English.

Work cited

Lyiscott, Jamila. 3 ways to speak English. TED talk. 19 June 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmJ5xQ_mc