"Broken English"..how is it perceived?

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Broken English how is it perceived? 


The way we communicate reflects they way we understand the world and people around us, it enables us to understand different ideas, perspectives, and points of view. language is an essential in creating individuality and flourishing new ideas and blooming our own individual life stories. Language allows us to create interesting points of view that are creating through our interaction with other individuals.

Modern society has embedded us to view the way people speak and then enable us to categorize and stereotype these people by the way they make words escape their mouths. We begin to have a standard of how people should speak, but who are we to decide how an individual should speak?. When we notice someone talking in "limited" or "broken" English we instantly think of them as being "uneducated" and "ignorant"; We categorize these people as being in impoverished thus we belittle them look down on them. We treat these people with no seriousness and don’t want to ‘deal with them’, This is supported in Amy Tan’s passage/text when she refers to her mother going through her difficulties when talking to the stockbroker because of her broken English, thus the guy did not take her with seriousness, but when she talked to him he was able to understand her commands, this supports the reason that the better English an individual acquire the more ‘high class’ they are. 

Who are we to decide how a person should speak? This is a question that should run in our minds constantly. Language is something that is built into each of our personalities, the way we speak is the way we look at the world and the way we interact with our society, that should not be taken a fault.   When listening to someone with “broken English” it should be accounted that they speak another language, this should already be support to how educated they are, even if you find English to be universal language that is “more important” language is something that flourishes in your  being, by knowing multiple, this shows the amount of understanding and knowledge and points of view that one individual can acquire and how heritage culture and tradition has shaped that. person into someone the sprouts with personality. Don’t you agree? 

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