“Broken” English has become a part of my day to day with my experiences in college as well as working in retail. I am appalled at a large portion of the reactions by native English speakers to these people who have do not speak this language perfectly. I am sickened to see that even now we still see what Amy Tan went through with her mother—seeing people discredited or not taken seriously because their English isn’t up to other’s standard. The thought of someone going to school for nearly decade or even longer to obtain the highest level of academic excellence, who then takes a job to help educate others is belittled, made fun of, and discredited by a classroom of teenagers because she speaks three languages and does not always pronounce her
