Case Study Cultural Differentiation
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- In a quasi-autobiography titled Inside Out and Back Again, Tanhha Lai recounts the journey of her family as they escape a war-riddled Vietnam and must remake their lives in America.
- Ha's mother is determined to allow her children the greatest opportunity.
- Until you children master English, you must think, do, wish for nothing else... (p. 117)
- First RuleBrother Quang says to add an s to mean more than one even if there's already an s sitting there. All day I practice squeezing hisses through my teeth. Whoever invented English must have loved snakes. (p. 118)
- Second RuleAdd an s to verbs acted by one person in the present tense even if there's already an s sound nearby...I'm getting better at hissing, no longer spitting on my forearms.(p. 123).
- Third RuleAlways an exception. Do not add s to certain nouns... Why no s for two deer but s for two monkeys? ...Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.
- MiSSSSScott points to me, then to the letters of the English alphabet. I say ABC andso on. She tells the class to clap. I frown. MiSSS SScott points to the numerssalong the way. I count up to twenty. The class claps on its own. Im furious,unable to explain I already learned fractions and how to purify river water. Sothis is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate, hate it. (p. 157)
- Pink boy stands at the board. He can’t multiply 18by 42. I go to the board, chalk the answer in five moves… I know Pink Boy willget me, but right now, I feel smart. (p. 188).
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