Analysis Of Gloria Gilman s A Wild Tongue - 850 Words

The author that stood out to me the most in the first unit was Gloria Anzaldà ºa. This is because I had made some personal connections to Anzaldà ºa’s piece on How to Tame a Wild Tongue. It was interesting to read the struggles of someone who grew up within the U.S. and personally experienced not only a language barrier between those who speak only English but also those of Hispanic descent who speak different types of Spanish dialects. From How to Tame a Wild Tongue Anzaldà ºa argues about how taking away or making someone conform their native language takes their identity away. In the U.S. we tend to be called a â€Å"melting pot† yet we still have a hard time accepting those who differ from ourselves. With English being the primary language in the U.S. many tend to make a causation/correlation relationship. In which is related to â€Å"If you live in the U.S. you need to speak only English†, obviously this is not the case. This carries on in our schools nat ionwide. While the U.S. has been making some changes related to letting children keep their native language and learn English, there still can be some negative stigma related to having a native language other than English. There are two major things I believe the U.S. should improve upon through schools throughout the country. We should not only work on improving the DLLs and ELLs classes, we additionally need to start incorporating various cultural diversity activities during class at younger ages. Children can be quite