Blogger #2

  Jamila Lyiscott and Gloria Anzuldua are two women who are passionate about their native languages. These two women are both educated and articulate and both speak multiple languages. "I had to borrow your language because mines was stolen. But you can't expect me to speak your history holly, whiles mines is broken, these words are spoken by someone who is simply fed up..." this quote  is from Jamila Lyiscott in her video "3 ways to speak English".  You cannot ask someone to speak a certain language like English, while their language is being stripped away from them when they are asked not to use it. In middle school whenever someone would talk Spanish, a teacher would tell us, "speak English this is America". To me being told not to talk Spanish was them taking a part of who I am away. Spanish is a part of my life, my family history, how could someone tell me to no longer use it just because we are in America, if it was a part of who i am? The English language is made up of words originating from other countries. So how could one tell another to not talk their language when English itself uses words from other countries to create its own. Apart from being Mexican, i am also American and i know when to use a certain language at a certain time. I am bilingual and I am proud to speak both Spanish and English, just like Lyiscott and Anduldua are proud of the multiple languages the speak.