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and identity issues. I have struggled with these challenges throughout my lifetime. My first language is spanish, I did not learn english until I entered the first grade where it was mandatory. A clear memory I have with the transition of spanish to english is being frustrated and angry that I was being forced to learn another language. Although school is taught in english, I am in touch with my spanish vocabulary because I speak spanish in my house and to my relatives. I am comfortable with…

My family's heritage is from Mexico. I was never told that I am Hispanic, I was only told that I was Mexican but I was also told to refer myself as an American. I did not even know the term, Hispanic, until I was in the eighth grade, when I saw my mother doing some paper work. I asked her what it meant, she said, "It's like another word for Mexican". I am part of the second generation in my family to be born in America. That means my parents did not teach me Spanish, so I had to learn it…

People’s culture heavily affects their perspective. A person’s view often reflects how people in similar situations to them think and how they see others. It is impractical that people will become entirely separate from their past and tradition to form a new and different culture of their own to embrace. Culture is what shapes people into who they are and what they find normal. “I was a confident and proud HAPA in Hawaii, but when I came back to Michigan, my predominately white peers still saw…

America is known for having freedom to improve people education. There’s so many things that can help people learn how to read and write. Not many country outside of America have literacy, they can’t learn or improve their reading and writing skills for different reasons. America forces student to go to school which it’s an advantage, but sadly a few disadvantage things can happen. Literacy is the ability to read, write and comprehend, it could be learned in many different ways. Not all…

She spoke excellent English, but her mother did not. When her mother would speak in the English language, Tan would be ashamed of her mother’s strong accent. She was ashamed of her mother’s tongue because her English language was broken as Tan described it, bringing attention to herself. She did not like speaking to customer service to interpret for her mother all the…

schools, according to the article, “Language Barriers: Only the Beginning” (Guthrie). Bilingual education should be implemented in schools in the United States because it allows for a smoother transition into the English language for foreign students when compared to programs that only teach English, it ensures that students will not lose familiarity with their native tongue, and it aids in the destruction of the language barriers that can impair foreign students, all while introducing a variety…

Life is full of long desires that we long to fulfill and accomplish; however we rarely have the opportunity to pursue those desires within our given boundaries. Now imagine that you were granted a ticket, a golden ticket to set foot wherever you’ve desired. Gazing around the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, I longed to set foot in El Salvador, my beloved home country again. I desperately yearn to grasp a ticket that satisfied me a spot on the following flight. As a foreigner in the United…

one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people” (Theodore Roosevelt; 1919). A strong example is Spanglish, the mixed language between English and Spanish. Spanglish speakers are not fluent in Spanish and nor do they speak English with ease. As a result, those…

Language barrier is another reason to considerable for the immigrants. Additional, the language barrier is a common reason and challenge for immigrant, but it also could affect a lot to individual's development in the new country. They might have to face prejudice in different way within the community where they live in. Many immigrants are a source of cheap labor because they don’t have the ability to speak a new language. Beside, others face bully and abuse in their community, especially…

overcome a series of academic, social and political barriers. Barriers that have not discourage me from achieving my dreams but instead have only amplified my aspirations. To become successful in the United States, one has to be able to speak English as easily as one breathes air. For me, coming from a foreign country, learning this new language was not an easy task. When I first came to the US, I was the lowest ranked student in my class. My teachers struggled to help me because few of them…