Reply To: Amy Tan and James Baldwin

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Arijit Saha
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I felt a very close connection after reading these readings by Amy Tan and James Baldwin. English is not my first language, my mother language is something else and since I am an immigrant I was not good in speaking english as I am now, I struggled before when it came to speaking and getting along with the people here. In the reading it is showing how the character was ashamed of the way her mother expressed herself in English and I could relate to that from the mothers perspective, we should not be ashamed of the way we express ourselves and respect our mother language. everyone gets better overtime while speaking the language they speak daily. I see many people specially the younger crowd making fun of a certain way someone speaks but that should not be the way.