How To Tame A Wild Tongue Summary - 999 Words

A few months ago, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a young women named Heather Heyer, was killed at a protest against a white supremacy rally. She was standing up for others who were different then her. She was making sure her fellow citizens felt welcomed and knew they were loved by others in this country. This happened less than two hours away from Lynchburg, our home. We, as a nation, need to start embracing one another because at the end of the day, we all bleed the same blood. My wish is that one day we can all live together in peace. It starts at home. We have to begin a dialogue with our friends and family about the struggles others go through. Accepting one another is so much deeper than simply saying, â€Å"I support you†, although thats†¦show more content†¦A group of individuals trying to take away someone else’s freedom of expression, trying to make this country divide even more. Gloria talks about these divisions all throughout her story. Certain peo ple groups are taught at a young age, that if someone looks or sounds different then you, they shouldn’t be welcomed in this country. Trying to take away or restricting someone from certain rights because they’re different from you is illegal. This can also go back to Gloria’s quote about attacks on the first Amendment. Everyone that is a citizen has the right to feel safe in this country and has the right to express their beliefs. Accents are one of the many things that make us different. As a free country, we should embrace them not suppress them. Some groups of individuals still, to this day, hate others because of their skin tone or language they speak. I personally think that those people are jealous and wish they could speak that way or share the culture. To me, each and every culture in this world is beautiful. The way they speak, the way they dance, the way they sing, and the way they dress, are all beautiful. For native english speakers we are taught in school that we have the most superior culture in the world, but that is statically wrong. Today, Chinese (more specifically mandarin) is the most common language spoken, according to Babbel.com. Can you imagine what it would feel like for you to goShow MoreRelatedHow to Tame a Wild Tongue1952 Words   |  8 Pagesâ€Å"My Perspective of a Wild Tongue† â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue†, by Gloria Anzaldua, is a very expressive story about a Mexican American women’s struggle to preserve her culture. Her main fight revolves around a struggle to keep a form of Spanish, called â€Å"Chicano Spanish†, a live. In the short story she says, for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal, Castilian) Spanish, or standard English, what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?(pageRead MoreRn Language1591 Words   |  7 Pagesprofession, as well as the importance of maintaining these elite level communication skills. 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