Thursday, February 09, 2006

Darwin believed that only the strongest survive, I believe this same theory holds true for Literacy. More and more countries are teaching standard English in their schools. For my paper I am comparing Min- Zhan Lu and Anzaldua. Both of these writers struggled with their cultures and the use of standard English. Min- Zhan Lu had been thought English since she was a little girl, that was the language her family spoke in their house. As she grew up she learned about the Bourgeois and associated English with it. This created trouble because at school her classmates were part of the working class, otherwise known as proletariat. English is much like the Bourgeois, other countries have been or are adopting English as one of the languages thought in school, standard English is taking over and if it is not all ready the most wide spread language it eventually will be. Anzaldua said that her language and culture are studdorn and it will continue to live, but I disagree. English is stronger and eventually, probably never in our lifetime, other languages will die out and the whole world will know English

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