The Abolition of the English Department establishes a lot of important details that, even though are happening across the globe, are similar to the current status of the American Continent. This side of the planet is being strongly influenciated by the United States of America; this cultural immersion of the United States or other metropolis is happening not only to U.S. territories, but in all Central and South America, and in the Caribbean. It can be seen in the Drown Collection by Junot Díaz, where Yunior and his uncle see United States as better than Dominican Republic; their vision of their country is a third-world one in Fiesta 1980. Also, in The Discourse on the Logic of Language by M. NourbeSe Phillip, who is originally from Tobago,
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NourbeSe mentions various times in her poem how the speaker does not have a mother tongue, but in the confusion of identity, then talks about how English is the mother tongue and proceeds to refuse it by stating a mother’s tongue is not foreign. The poem states how the colonizers removed the slaves’ identity in order to make them submissive; they removed their native language from their life and forced them to talk in the metropolis’ language. Generations of stories and history of a nation is lost as if their patrimony do not mean anything. If the natives spoke their mother tongue, they would be severely punished; even cutting their tongues off. “If they cannot speak to each other, they cannot then ferment rebellion and revolution” (NourbeSe). This way, the enslavers, took their roots away and convert them into submissive and colonized workers. They did this by making the natives feel dumb, the negroes felt anguished because they could not talk the foreign language properly and felt the colonizers were superior; that is the meaning the speaker gives to the verse: “a foreign anguish” and “I have no mother tongue…I must therefore be dumb-tongue.” Soon, the rules of the game kept changing and nations could not continue to invade countries, and the population became more educated. Thus, the education system focused on the metropolis and their beliefs; which left us …show more content…
She attacks this idea in a multiple-choice section after she mentions how, historically, Dr. Broker and Dr. Vernicer dedicated their life to prove hoy male Caucasians were superior to blacks and women by stating the brain size. So, in the multiple choice, she compares the tongue to the penis.
Authors have been trying to fight this movement by writing pieces trying to inform people of what is happening, but not all realize what is right in front of their noses. Yet another example of this is Pablo Neruda’s Walking Around poem. A curiosity of it is that the poem is all in Spanish, but the title is in English. As the poem continues it is easy to draw to the conclusion how he hates his day-to-day life, as a counsel of Chile in India while England had taken over the country. The poem is a social critique that address the
NourbeSe mentions various times in her poem how the speaker does not have a mother tongue, but in the confusion of identity, then talks about how English is the mother tongue and proceeds to refuse it by stating a mother’s tongue is not foreign. The poem states how the colonizers removed the slaves’ identity in order to make them submissive; they removed their native language from their life and forced them to talk in the metropolis’ language. Generations of stories and history of a nation is lost as if their patrimony do not mean anything. If the natives spoke their mother tongue, they would be severely punished; even cutting their tongues off. “If they cannot speak to each other, they cannot then ferment rebellion and revolution” (NourbeSe). This way, the enslavers, took their roots away and convert them into submissive and colonized workers. They did this by making the natives feel dumb, the negroes felt anguished because they could not talk the foreign language properly and felt the colonizers were superior; that is the meaning the speaker gives to the verse: “a foreign anguish” and “I have no mother tongue…I must therefore be dumb-tongue.” Soon, the rules of the game kept changing and nations could not continue to invade countries, and the population became more educated. Thus, the education system focused on the metropolis and their beliefs; which left us …show more content…
She attacks this idea in a multiple-choice section after she mentions how, historically, Dr. Broker and Dr. Vernicer dedicated their life to prove hoy male Caucasians were superior to blacks and women by stating the brain size. So, in the multiple choice, she compares the tongue to the penis.
Authors have been trying to fight this movement by writing pieces trying to inform people of what is happening, but not all realize what is right in front of their noses. Yet another example of this is Pablo Neruda’s Walking Around poem. A curiosity of it is that the poem is all in Spanish, but the title is in English. As the poem continues it is easy to draw to the conclusion how he hates his day-to-day life, as a counsel of Chile in India while England had taken over the country. The poem is a social critique that address the