Cultural Differences In Mother Tongue By Amy Tan
After reading the narrative written by Amy Tan I was surprised by how she goes into detail and uses her personal experience to outline the cultural differences in the English language. In Mother Tongue, I have realized that the English we have grown up in our families may or may not be perfect. If it is not perfect then many people will perceive us differently than others. Amy Tan uses her mother as an example of this, Tan believes that because her mother’s communication skills were weak that meant her thoughts are imperfect. For example, in the incident with the stockbroker, the stockbroker paid more attention to Amy (who was pretending to be her mother) because her communication skills are better than the real Ms. Tan. I understood when Amy