Amy Tan's Essay On Gen Nexters

As I have been reading and researching communities, most follow similar general patterns and outlines. The community members are working together for a common goal or they are brought together by corresponding qualities. When I think of the word community it is usually with a positive connotation rather than negative. In Amy Tan’s essay, she introduced a community that her mother was apart of that caused me to rethink my definition of community. Her mother was apart of a community of “broken” and/or “limited” English speakers by default because she could not speak our language properly according to our rules of grammer. The community was looked down upon in our culture and instead of encouraging her, being of apart of the community hindered her and brought mistreatment towards her for her entire life. Even after reading this, I found yet another contrasting model of a community in Ann Hulbertmarch’s essay on Gen Nexters. Their community consists of people born around the same time, yet, the members all hold diverse stances on issues facing our society today such as abortion and gay marriage. Reading about these examples triggers me to rethink my idea that a community participants work …show more content…
Hulbertmarch’s essay was straightforward and clear, which I appreciate, but she mainly proposed theories and presented research and findings. Her tone was optmistic and praising of our generation which was a rather genious approach because she is implanting her opinion into the piece in a positive light instead of simply criticizing all others. However, as a result of her proposition ideas she no longer is writing informationally about the subject, she is imputting her personal opinion. Opinion is obviously expected, however, she did not show any evidence to back up her beliefs other than that is just what she thinks is