Leave Your Name At The Border By Manuel Munoz Analysis

Whether we are Hispanics, African, or other ethnicities, our mother tongue is different than the English language. When pronouncing our name in English the accent of our name changes it is no longer our name, When English becomes our second language, our mother tongue stays with us because it is our language from culture. However, when English is our second language it is more likely to become less fluent than our first language. In Manuel Munoz essay, "Leave Your Name at the Border", Munoz mentioned ‘ 'Language is all about manipulation, or not listening to the rules ' ', Munoz means the language is pronounced differently than what it should actually be spoken. I can relate to Munoz in several ways like trying to fit in, people creating assumptions about foreign people, and how our name is pronounced. I have discovered that many people have created hurtful assumptions …show more content…
How our name changes due to the mispronunciation of people, I will not say just Americans mispronounce our name because even I have a hard time pronouncing some of my friends last name. In fact, when other people come from other countries it is often difficult for other ethnicities to pronounce our name, Munoz is correct when saying that Americans pronounced our foreign name a different way. My name is pronounced different in the English language than what my real name should actually sound like. For example, my name is pronounced as A-lon-drra, but everybody pronounces it as Alon-dra, even I have a hard time pronouncing some of my friend 's last names whether they are African or Chinese, Italian. Pronouncing other names from other ethnicities it must be bothersome to many people who have to listen to their name being mispronounced. Others would not mind being called another way because they try to find a way to fit in into the new country and adapt to