The Dentist Case

1. What I find the most interesting about Anzaldúa's essay is helpful in expressing not only how diversity affects the shaping of one's personal identity but also the importance of one's language. The author opens her story by telling her real story at the dentist office. The dentist is complaining that her tongue is "strong and stubborn", and it makes her feel frustrated, and she think of herself how to tame her tongue to be quiet. In fact, there is nothing wrong about her tongue; it's just because the dentist wasn't referring to her accent. Her reactions make the problems: she has had the way that she speaks causes her to be constantly conscious of how other people view her. She believes her accent is something that defines her. Therefore, those who speaks Spanish or those who speak English don't accept her as a native speaker.

2. What I find most challenging about Anzaldúa's essay is that the language she speaks is Chicano Spanish, and she is living in an English-speaking environment; therefore, people take advantage of her accent. In this essay, the author not just only gives the readers an example of how her dentist got mad at her wild tongue but also she think that her teacher take advantage on her by telling her to go back to her country if she doesn't speak English like an English-speaker. As a child, she had many obstacles and stereotypes to overcome because of her accent; her language was a source of turmoil, which caused her anger and frustration, as well as problems of concerning her self-esteem and how she valued herself.

3. What I find most problematic in this essay is the language of a person who speaks will describe who they are. The problems that the author had identifying with her environment because of her language could have permanently affected her identity. In addiction, she cannot be happy with herself until she accepts the "illegitimacy" of her tongue. From my point of view, the language varies doesn't mean that it makes it any less authentic. People who speak a variation on a language should not be ashamed of the way they speak because that is their cultures, where they from, and how they are. The author expresses the needs for the language of Chicano Spanish and the participating in Chicano cultures is not something to be ashamed of.

4. What I find I most relate to is that I'm not an English speaker; I have Vietnamese accent when I speak English and sometime people take advantages of the way I speak. It was frustrating at first because sometime I felt people begin to be racial to me because they could not understand clearly my English. In fact, this essay reminds me of the article " Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan, she wrote about her mother's broken English; however, it does not affect her intelligent. If you could speak English fluently, it doesn't mean that you are smart, or you can do