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Code Switching Research Paper

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Code Meshing is the process of speaking both formal and informal at the same time; where as code switching is the process of switching from speaking formal to informal, or informal to formal in order to fit in. I choose not to use either of those methods. I used to use code switching most of my life up until I went to high school. My parents taught me to code switch to show respect to my elders. You should not speak to elders the same way you would speak to your friends. I went to a Afrocentric school Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School There we was taught to embrace our history and use Ebonics in our everyday language.

The reason why I use Ebonics in my everyday language is to show homage to my ancestors. Ebonics started because our ancestors was not granted the right to education so they used Ebonics as a way to communicate with each other. Ebonics is a historical way of speaking and many schools in the Philadelphia Public School district don't teach children to speak like this, but afrocentric charter schools make it their obligation to teach us to speak like that and allow it with in their classrooms. Not teaching allowing black americans to speak ebonics in the school is telling them to neglect their culture and History. Forcing them to …show more content…

For example when I was going to private school my teacher told us that Christopher Columbus was the first to come to America and when he came here he seen Indians. I asked my teacher how was he the first person to discover America if their was people already here and she told me thats what she was taught and she never questioned it. I was was only in the 3rd grade then. Since then I questioned everything up until I went to Sankofa and they seem to answer every question about the history of every race. Native Americans is not Indians; Indians is Indians, and Native Americans is Native

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