Differences between cultures, which include traditions, languages, and appearances, cause stereotypes in society. It is one of the most popular problems in communities, and people could not do anything except face with it. According to “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Myth of the Latin Women” by Judit Ortiz Cofer, the authors illustrate how American evaluate people who are from different cultures, how discrimination affects to their life, and how people find solutions to solve their problems. In the article “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan emphasizes that people have various ways to communicate with the others. The authors is a Chinese immigrant fictional writer, who realizes how different types of “Englishes” affect to human’s lives. Her mother is…show more content… In Tan’s situation, her mom – a person cannot speak English perfectly like the others – always has communication issue because of her “broken” English. “It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with,” Tan shared. (Paragraph 9) In addition, she states that the “limited” English does “…everything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited English speaker.” (paragraph 7) Most of them will feign an excuse to what her mom said or just simple that they do not hear her. Moreover, numerous socialists and linguist point out the language, which is using in family, take an enormous roll in developing the language of young generation. Tan claims that most of Asian students seem at ease with math and other science subjects rather than English. Since both subjects only get one exact answer for their questions, English has multiple answers which depends on how people express their thoughts. Even when she got job as a writer, she received a stereotype comment from her boss, “I was told by my former boss that writing was my worst skill and I should hone my talents toward account management.” (paragraph 18) However, not only because of that discrimination makes her mind be considered, she decided to improve English and became a writer for her mother. “I want to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.” (paragraph
