After reading both "The Scourge of Relatability" by Rebecca Mead, and "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Glorida Anzaldúa I believe Anzaldúa creates a more effective argument when explaining the hardships of being a spanish speaker in the USA. She allows the audience to connect with her on a personal level by writing details of her childhood, her family and her experiences when speaking the different types of spanish. While Rebecca Mead makes her claim based upon another person's actions opposed to her own. Mead speaks as a commenter/critic while Anzaldúa speaks from the heart. Also, while reading the introduction of Mead's article it made me feel as those this work of literature was going to be preposterous, because she used words such as "Twitter", "stupid self", "suckiness". This words included in the introduction gave the portrayal that this article was going to be a hyperbole or satirical.
Anzaldúa makes a strong argument because she carefully explains what it's like to live with a language that is "embarrassing", a language that is subtly controlled by English over powering it. Anzaldúa use of strong words and phrases such as "attacks", "impenetrable as a stone"alienation" creates a powerful and vigorous tone through the passage. I believe Anzaldúa captures the audiences attention and makes the readers feel as though they have been hit by the words in order to understand and become involved in the reading.
I also feel that the situation in Mead's article is one that doesn't occur frequently enough to raise a huge concern and hardly anyone would even grasp the problem. Mead's problem is not one that is easily seen in everyday life, it is a problem one would have to really put some thought into to realize that the meaning of "relatable" is a problem. Anzaldúa's struggle is one that is frequent, since hispanic is the largest minority group in North America. Anzaldúa powerfully claims that the conflict of identification between cultures"suffer[ing]" and creates a sense of urgency and sympathy. Anzaldúa essay generates among the readers a want/need for change, she tells us why and how many people such as herself feel isolated, when they just want a sense of belonging.
I disagree with your statement that Glorida Anzaldua’s article “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” because most people now don’t have these issues of being rejected based on their accents. It’s less frequent to isolate others because of the way the sound, now that people are more accepting of diverse languages and accents. Of course it was an issue when more and more people were coming to America with accents but now it is less frequent because have gotten used to how others sound and more accepting of it. As opposed to Rebecca Mead’s article, “The Scourge of Relatability” because people are more now-a-days can related through social media because it is become a part of our daily lives. Based on the generation we live in, we’ve become more accepting of the diversity of people so the issue of accents being “embarrassing” and people with those accents being alienated are less frequently than the generation before. People who learned English as their first language are now even making an effort to learn languages like Spanish, French, German, etc. to catch up with the increase of diversity in the world now. So, you could say that the “American” people are looking for a sense of belonging when they try to learn these new languages to keep up with the diversity. Therefore, I disagree with your statement of anazaldua’s article to the extent that it is because of the generation she lived in is how people related to it more effectively, but now in OUR generation we can relate more to Mead’s article because of the vast usage of social media.
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