Professor Young
English 1100
09/02/2015
"I am Unique, there is noone in this world like me"
We always hear those who are "trying to figure out who they are", saying they are trying to "find their identity", their place in society, their place in the world. Do we ever stop to think what that means, what identity is and how you gain it? Anzaldua speaks very passionatly about this topic in her writing "How to Tame a Wild Tongue". She strongly believes that language and identity are tied hand in hand and says that the language you speak is a part of you is a part of your roots. Could this be true, could knowing a different language really make us different in certain ways.
I personally live this reality, because yes, in my opinion Anzaldua is right in every sense. When you grow up speaking a different language in a different country your values and morals are different. This comes to play a role when you are just a baby and you are thought how to speak, and in some way how to think. " So if you really want to hurt me, talk badly about my language." (pg 2) quote that brings out the truth in the way I feel when one trys to speak badly about my people, my country or my language. I take pride in all those things because to me that is who I am. All of my actions reflect on how I was raised and who I was raised by; so to insult my origen is to insult me as a unique indivdual. The way I portrey myself is how I was thought to show myself to others, therefore everything I do and say shows who I am.
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Work Cited
Anzaldua, Gloria."How to Tame a Wild Tongue". Teaching Developmental Writing. Ed. Susan Naomi Berstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 245-255. Print.
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