VOICES

Voices In my house there is always a constant language barrier. The fact that my mother and father both speak English and Dutch with easy is no big problem. But my father who can speak up to eight different languages seems to have the most problems with it. Form time to time he will use a Portuguese word in place of an English word. It takes patience on my part, which I have very little …

…have tried to accept the fact that there are many different languages. But, there seems to be no happy median between the two. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay, “Aria” he feels that keeping the languages separate will help keep the diversity between the nationalities while, Gloria Anzaldua feels that the different languages in this ‘melting point’ society should be promoted to keep a sense of national dignity. In both cases, there are positives and downfalls.