Questão 4 - Dia 1 - Azul - Enem 2024

     I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess [...] I remember being sent to the corner of the classroom for "talking back" to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. "If you want to be American , speak 'American'. If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong".

     "I want you to speak English [...]", my mother would say, mortified that I spoke English like a Mexican. At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.

ANZALDÚA, G. Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza San Francisco. Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

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