Esto es algo que yo he visto un par de gente usando. La realidad es que grupos de gente que viven juntos tienen un más alto probabilidad de cometer crimen a su mismos. No tienen de ver con rasa exactamente, pero con proximidad. Si ven la estadísticas del FBI puede ver que el crimen de gente blanca contra blanca comparado a crimen de gente negra contra negra, el porcentaje es similar. Pero gente racistas o ignorante utilizan audicion selectiva para enfocar solo en los gente negro.

Esto es vien importante porque si no tenemos propio contexto de porque las cosas son como son, después es más duro de entender y tener simpatía con los grupos marginados. Me recuerdo cuando le estaba diciendo a mi madre de los linchamientos de los KKK y ella se veía bien asombrada.

Esto es interesante porque, mirando al el web, esta institución fue creada en los 1890s. En este tiempo, mujeres todavía no pudieron votar y fueron un grupo mirado como inferior pero estas mujeres querían manipular historia y posicionar esclavidud y opresión de gente Africano como algo positivo.

So, si yo lo entiendo bien, está diciendo que todo de nosotros tenemos prejudicia, y alguna veces es el producto de nuestro medio ambiente y cual grupo es dominante. So relationando con lenguaje, en los estados unidos, el grupo dominante son los blancos, son la estructura del lenguaje está en centro a ese grupo, eso pone los otros grupos en un desventaja. Lo mismo como si vemos a, por ejemplo, la república dominicana. El lenguaje dominante es espanol, y el otro grupos, los haitianos migrantes, estan en un desventaja.

Is he talking about language crossing? From my understanding, he is saying that obvious racism is legally penalized but language crossing, a dominant group talking like a minority group, is also just as bad. What modern case of language crossing is so dangerous that it needs urgency in the US? He connects language crossing to blackface, but if language crossing was so offensive, and it's a part of modern culture, I think there would be more uproar.

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How can this be implemented on a wide scale?

In my English class, we recently read an essay titled, "Nobody mean more to me than you and the future self of Willie Jordan" by June Jordan, and it talks about the same thing with Black English. It talks about how "standard/white english" (ever heard of “talking white”?) is seen as the only acceptable form of language in America and that is a problem with some people in racial groups because there are some words and dialects that are connected to their reality and identity. To say that the way they use language is wrong is to basically erase their identity and invalidate them.

In the same token, I see people of different minority groups judge each other based on how they talk. Like for example, people mocking some Latin americans for not speaking english properly, and some latin americans mocking the way some other groups speak. I’ve seen this frequently throughout school and in public, so I think this will be a hard battle to fight for this author. Maybe my realistic view can be seen as too pessimistic, but I think ignorance is part of human nature, and every group has their racism/bias and it’ll always be like this, the best we can do is minimize the pool of ignorance. I guess this is where the school can play a big role in making sure that more people in general become more informed that different groups of people are in fact...different and don’t express themselves the same way and that is ok. Like the author mentioned in the beginning, teachers sharing memes talking about identity and language being separate is something that they can change their understanding of, and then pass that understanding on to others at a young age.

In the meantime, "standard" english is still too dominant in this country, so due to standardized testing and job opportunities, it will still be important to teach the "standard" form of english, but maybe teachers can find a way to tell students that this type of language is not the only language that is valid in their lives. It's hard, but it's like a news reporter using their TV voice in their job, and using their real voices elsewhere.

So the problem is not how spanglish words came about, but who uses it? I thought the problem was the use of spanglish in general.

I think this is interesting because I see this type of generalization often. I remember reading a comment on a video I was watching about crime in Australia that said the problem with racism is that, if a single person from a minority group commits a crime, then society puts the blame on the entire group and reaffirms their bias that we are all dangerous and no good. However, when a person from a majority group commits a crime, society tends to say that that specific person is mentally ill and needs help. This is on two people committing similar crimes. One case that comes to mind was the Stanford white guy who received only 6 months of jail for raping a girl, but I think it wouldn't be surprising that if a minority did that, the sentence would be worse, we have been punished more for less. So, relating to language, I think this same mentality applies to our reading.

This is something that I can somewhat loosely relate with Mia when it comes to language and culture. My parents are both Dominican, but apart from visiting there 2 times, I feel no real connection with. The only family that I interact with is my mom and 3 sisters and I only speak spanish with my mom and sometimes rarely in certain spanish speaking stores, although I feel like my spanish is not fluent enough to get a reply back in spanish.

With American culture I feel somewhat the same. Growing up, I had a speech impediment that didn't allow me to speak English smoothly and as a result most of my life was lived trying to hide my voice as much as possible. As I grew older and more confident, the impediment greatly lessened, but there are still slight traces of it, especially if I think about it as I'm speaking.

That being said, I don't share the same feeling of "wanting to belong" as Mia. I feel like I am carving my own path and identity, which is fine by me.

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I think this is a good point. For bilingual students who are not as fluent in Spanish, it would be very stressful to be demanded perfection. Realistically speaking, I would expect to be able to improve my Spanish and be complete the tasks required to the best of my ability and efforts, but I don't expect to be at the same level as someone who communicates fluent Spanish their whole life in such a short amount of time, especially when taking a full courseload. It takes time.

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