Gloria Anzaldua's How To Tame A Wild Tongue

In the excerpt How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua provides a description of how difficult it is to not speak English in the United States. Specifically Anzaldua argues that people should have the freedom to speak their own language without being looked down upon. In this paper, I write a description of myself. In this story I describe parts of me that others may not be familiar with. In doing so I will show how my story in my particular contact zone is similar to Anzaldua’s presentation of herself
In Pratt’s essay she discusses transculturation, which is when two cultures clash and combine. Anzaldua’s essay is literally all about culture, Her essay is spoken in different languages and different styles of speech. Throughout her essay she discusses how different it is to grow up a hispanic is and how the social and cultural changes can really affect someone. Such as the working class difference like Rodriguez. One way these essays are different is that Anzaldua’s talks about sexism. This is the first time we have read an essay that deals with gender. This is a main point in her essay because women are degraded in this society and even more so when …show more content…
I moved to South Carolina when I was eight, I do not remember how I felt about the move but I am pretty sure I was excited. I do remember my first day of school in South Carolina very vividly. The Carolinas are not highly educated on Asians, so my first day I got a lot of questions that I would not have been asked in California, such as “You’re Asian why don’t you have an accent?” and my personal favorite “Can you speak Asian?” I could not even imagine moving here and having an accent, I believe it would have been harder to adjust. But then sometimes I think what if my taught me how to speak Tagalog, would it have been harder to adjust to South Carolina, would they have greeted me with open