Enunciado
I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess [...] I remember being sent
to the corner of the classroom for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was
trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you want to be American, speak
‘American’. If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong”.
“I want you to speak English […]”, my mother would say, mortified that I spoke English
like a Mexican. At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to
take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.
A)
repúdio ao sotaque espanhol no uso do inglês.
B)
resignação diante do apagamento da língua materna.
C)
escassez de oportunidades de aprendizado do espanhol.
D)
choque entre falantes de línguas distintas de diferentes gerações.
E)
concorrência entre as variações linguísticas do inglês e as do espanhol.