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Kaylyn Rivas

Professor Batty

English 28

13 November 2017

Values Of One's Identity

Language contributes to the formation of one's identity whether you're bilingual or not. Being

bilingual creates the identity of one another throughout one's life being raised. There are many

ways identity can be contributed. For example; race, ethnicity, religion, and their education.

Many also identify others by the way they do things and the way they speak to one another

depending on who they're communicating with. Knowing different languages lead people to

personate themselves differently to their values.

Language is essential to one's identity because the expression of culture. It is important to

socialize for the unity in humanity because it increases the civilization. Language lets us

communicate in several ways to be closely connected. It is mostly encouraged to be direct and

speak our mind in an appropriate form of way. It is also important to see that language is

important to culture because there are many other words that different languages use that cant

be used in other languages because they dont exist. If we did not have language we would not

be able to grow and generate our experiences throughout living and not be able to plan an

occasion. In other words it is very important to let people know what or how we think about

opinions because it lets us be communicative.

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Its a cognitive reality that is impossible for most humans to comprehend because language can

shape our thinking. Language can or cannot affect the way we think depending on the ability of

the individual's future. Identity is just a name or someone, by that means there are many things

that culture differences have given rise. For example; clothes and religion, those values appear

from the creation of language. There are many people that feel like they need to fit in just so

that fit into their actual identity. Therefore these identities would be seen as and identified as

outcasts that are given rise to these common life choices.

Communication helps others know how they are feeling and what's going through their mind.

Being open minded and expressing your thoughts is a pleasing feeling and helps others do the

same because not being able to communicate with others can be hard. It can be harmful to others

because holding and gathering up all thoughts to yourself can be stressful for some and being

able to understand helps identity be developed. Language has given rise to jobs/roles in each

respective culture and is able to help us with our grammar, meaning, and sounds to share

information with one another but body language is used to send a message.

Without the culture of America being used by language, women definitely would be identified

differently. Language has allowed both men and women establish that men to be thought of

heads of the household and women to be pushed into their home as wife stereotypes. This is the

cause of men being aggressive and acting tough, and women to act/feel helpless and needy. In

reality women are very much capable to do way more than men in the real world. Just because

women as seen and spoken about because of how their described doesnt mean they should be
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set to stay at home and be house wives, they are very much more skillful and are more capable of

doing stuff rather than men.

As for the book How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents it is about four wealthy young

sisters that had to flee from their country the Dominican Republic. They moved to New York

where everything was different to how they were treated and seen by others. When they moved

to New York they had to learn English because all they knew was Spanish in the Dominican

Republic, and their perspectives when seen by others because they didn't want to be judged. As

for them living in New York, being treated differently and not being wealthy anymore, they

forgot how to speak spanish because they were speaking english more frequently just to fit in, so

they would dress and style themselves differently. Life was different for them in New York

because in Dominican they would rely on services but in New York they didn't have any of those

privileges.

One of the sisters in the book named Yolanda would see words very important when

communicating and using them. Yolanda explains that language isn't just a way of describing

reality because language explains a development used in communication. In the book on page 11

Yolanda expresses her feelings hoping that moving to another country will be the same like if

she were still home but if only she knew that coming to New York would change her and her

sisters identities just to fit in as Americans.

Overall, having a strong cultural identity encourages humans to have strong sense of their own

culture history and their tradition. Having a positive sense of humor helps support societys

overall well being and without language there is no possible way we would have communication.
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