Mrs. Osaki Case Study

Another question arises: what is a “narrative of ethnicity” in diasporic context? Choy explains how immigrants are to preserve their ethinic identity, yet they adapt to their social context. The children feel the same resentment and distaste for Chinese. Jook-Liang forces herself to speak English at home in her efforts to be more like Shirley Temple. She speaks to herself in English while practicing her dance routine (Choy, 36) and uses it as a tool to feel less Chinese. The children have jarring associations to learning and speaking

Amy Tan uses rhetorical devices, such as anecdotes and parallel structure, to emphasise her uneasy attitude toward her mother's language and cultural identity in her essay “Mother Tongue”. Amy Tan grows up being ashamed of her mother’s “broken english”, but realizes the significance of the different englishes that she acquires. Tan’s anecdotes relish the significance of her mother's english. The recollection of these stories helps Tan be more considerate of the hardships her mother faces in her everyday life. By using parallel structure, Tan exaggerates her points and allows the reader to understand the importance of what she is saying, in addition to creating emphasis on the meaning in which she is trying to get across.

The section on page 87 describes the state at which the six survivors were a year after the bombing summed up the effects which occurred from the first four chapters of the book. The section further reinforces the fact that although these six people were the luckiest out of the many at Hiroshima, they still suffer life changing effects of the atomic bomb.

Ms. Yuka Hirasawa performed her duties in a highly exemplary manner. As the Master Labor Contractor (MLC) and United States Civil Service (USCS) Management Analyst, she meticulously processed 15 USCS positions from recruit to fill at NCTS FE region in the second quarter to of FY17. She had a direct impact in reducing our vacancy rate to 22%. Also, she briefed NCTS FE Triad on the USCS, MLC, OG employee biweekly on the manning status.

2.).Ms. Okoro initiated an ethical consult on a patient who was dealing with cancer, had suffered from depression and she was the mental health treatment coordinator. The veteran had been placed on hospice and his medication was stopped, but he did not want to be on hospice. The family came to see her to ask what he can do. I placed an ethical consults where it was determined that this individual had the right to refuse hospice and the outcome is he continued to receive all his mental health medication that had been discontinued after commencing the hospice and did not lose self-determination because had mild cognitive decline till he passed on.

The use of English in Japanese society challenges the traditional view of English as a lingua franca. Kubota and McKay (2009) investigated the role of English in Hasu (a pseudonym), a small Japanese community with non-English-speaking immigrants from Brazil, China, Peru, Korea, Thailand, and other countries, by evaluating the results of a community survey on diversity and interviewing five Japanese individuals (p. 593). They found that an attachment to English could reinforce the superiority of native speakers and deprive English learners of their willingness to communicate with others in other languages (Kubota & McKay, 2009, p. 612). The process of globalization entails the interconnectedness of people across the world. In this instance, the use of English acts as a boundary to cultural and linguistic understanding and divides people instead of connecting them together. Seargeant (2005) finds that the influx of loanwords and the decorative use of English in media and advertising acts as a boundary between Japan and the world because of its unfamiliar use (p. 318). Japan has essentially co-opted English and transformed it into a language that native English speakers find strange. The proliferation of English

My interviewee is a Japanese woman who is thirty-four years old. She has stayed in New Zealand for fifteen years. She came to New Zealand to work. To protect the interviewee’s anonymity, this essay will refer her as ‘Sue’. Sue graduated from high school at around nineteen years old in her home town. Then she moved to New Zealand hoping to find a job and now she is a permanent resident.

A clear correlation can be established between the languages other than English spoken in a state/community and the patterns of human migration and integration. The clustering of an ethnic group or culture in an area impacts the entire community around it. The economic, religious, and educational implications of immigration necessitate the attention of resources and efforts essential to successful multilingual communities. Relating to immigrants through language is a

“When my children reached school age, there was not any Japanese people around us, nor any Japanese school. My children were reluctant to speak Japanese, to be different from others. At first, they seemed to enjoy having their own secret language, but then later on, told me not to speak Japanese outside” (Izuhara and Shibata). These are the words of one of the Japanese migrant women who decided to settle in the UK. Many Japanese girls and women have migrated to Britain after the end of Second World War. These women travelled to a foreign country for their foreign partners, education

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York I had many friends from different cultural backgrounds, and the neighborhood I lived in was a melting pot of families from all over the globe. Among them Kimmie Chang, Gabby Martinez, Bella D'Amato, and Logan O'Neill. The air always smelt of delicious ethnic cuisines, and all of the languages were interesting to listen to. The best part was that each family had children close to my age so I was always experiencing a different lifestyle. Feeling so popular among the community, I was invited to dinner at all of my friend's houses at a certain time of the year. Fascinated by different dialect I found myself analyzing conversation at the dinner table, observing the way each family's lifestyle was so different than mine in every way. During my younger years, my brain was able to process a lot from my friends and their families that I could write a book.

"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan is an essay written about and to the author's mother. In it, Ms. Tan highlights the different "Englishes" that she uses in her life in contrast to the English she speaks with her mother. She explores the difference between her mother's English and that of other people, as well as her own English when speaking with her mother versus others. The author also addresses the way that her mother is seen by the outside world because of the way she speaks and the judgment and discrimination that accompany this viewpoint. In this analysis essay, I hope to encourage the reader to think beyond initial assumptions and realize that perception is not reality. The article's theme of language shaping perception is well evidenced by Tan's examples of the different dialects of English of her life, as well as through her examples of miscommunication, negative stereotyping, and even discrimination against immigrants, especially her mother.

it is still, silent. She finds her desk, waiting with the others. The door closes definitively. Droning words start and students follow the strict set of instructions. Section XX: What is your ethnicity? The pencil stops. Her heart rate quickens. She fills “Asian or Pacific Islander.” She erases it.

The excitement on the end of the phone from the northern island of Hokkaido was palpable. A cherished only son, into his early thirties and still unmarried, telling his mother he would bring home a girlfriend when he travelled from Tokyo for all-important New Year festivities. The son hung up the handset with an air of satisfaction and flashed a contented grin towards the girlfriend. “Now get back on the line,” she insisted, understanding enough of the language to appreciate that the mother had not been fully informed, “and tell them I am not Japanese.”

When it comes to society, language is one of the main indicators as to what their cultural values are. For example, in South Korean culture language is an indicator of their values, collectivism, harmony, and hierarchy. The way one regards to their family is an example of collectivism, instead of using “my” they use “our .” An example that the book uses would be, “our mother” to

While in the last case, language provided Identity between the Mother Nation and its child, it can also provide Identity