CONTRACTS AND COMPARISON SECOND LANGUAGE, NATIVE SPEAKER, DISCRIMINATION

The United States in a country of immigrants. We can found people from every part of the world. That’s why this country also has many social problems that sometimes people don’t identify. Discrimination is not only about skin color. I learned that discrimination is also about social classes and languages. Not understanding people’s language is a social issue in the United States that have been presents for years. After I read the essay of Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” and the essay of Chang-Rae Lee, “Mute in an English Only world” I figured out some similarities and differences between the two essays that helped me to understand clearly what discrimination of language really means. Everybody probably has a definition of discrimination. Some people may assume that discrimination is just about skin color as I mentioned before. However, I believe that many people experience other types of discrimination in their daily life and they don’t even know it.