After reading How to Tame a Wild Tongue I think it brings people back to the roots of their own culture. All humans are prideful people and hold honor in their heritage. In the piece of writing its talking about Spanish people learning to speak English. In one part of the reading there was a part that said “cultural traitor, you’re speaking the oppressor’s language. By speaking English you’re ruining the Spanish language.” I believe race and heritage to be on both sides of the table. You can be proud of your culture but people should be willing to embrace other peoples. Like in the reading people shouldn’t be forced to practice someone else’s culture. They should just be accepted for who they are and all cultures should be practiced with tolerance and no discrimination should take place. I then like when they begin to talk about someone who does not identify with any language. They are called fork tongued people. People who do not speak Spanish or English so what do they do? They create their own language. Something that themselves can now identify with. For example, “patois” is a forked tongued variation of two languages. Then they begin to talk about music and how important music is to the heritage and culture of someone a how proud they are to have their own culture. I love when the author then starts to talk about how they remember how the hot, sultry evening when they would play both songs about love and death on the Texas and Mexican border and the music just came through the window. I love the way in which this is described and how I can put myself in the authors bedroom and imagine the music come through the window. For culture, what can be culture without food. Food music and language are the 3 things that are the most important part for human interaction and human bonding. This is a common thing that brings people with the same culture together. To be I still find it shameful that we can look at someone’s race of heritage and hate on them because of where they came from. No one can pick their race but anyone can be proud of where they come from and they should just be accepted for who they are now what they look like. My question would be why are people so intolerant of other people’s race or heritage and why is it so difficult to accept someone for who they are?