Amy Tan's Changing Stereotypes

Amy Tan's goal has changed slightly. While the Author wants to show the effect language has on one's daily life and how we perceive others who are different, she also wants to show how the language barrier affects our society overall.
The first key point I identified after active reading was the sentence beneath the title. "Don't judge a book by its over, or intelligence by her English". That phrase helped me understand Amy's goal in this piece by summing up their entire article in one phrase. I also now understand what Amy means when she speaks about the broad physiological questions she can't begin to answer. I view these as social questions, as well. Broken English is considered a bad thing, as she relays when she says "I was ashamed of

She dabbles in the real problem of why people "judge books by their covers". I wish to show my audience that changing stereotypes like the one Amy Tan had to overcome starts with changing the way we think as a society. We must teach our children to think differently if we wish to see real change. Most bias stem from childhood, and while in school. Even some teachers are biased without knowing it. The ignorant teacher that continues to show children that these actions are okay is the teacher that continues the social biases. Students then grow up and have children of their own, and there is another generation reinforcing these thoughts. No one thinks deeply enough to see these thoughts are wrong and is what’s wrong with our

For example, I agree with Tan's claim that one should never judge a person's intelligence by their use of English. Her mother understands perfectly well when she is being cheated, or looked down upon. She stated that she had “plenty of empirical evidence” because “people in department stores, in banks, and restaurants did not take her mother seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.” Amy fought the stereotype that Asians face by challenging herself. She changed her major to writing, although her professor told her it was not her strongest skill. Amy spoke "broken" language with her family, but in front of a group she used, as she put it, "Carefully wrought grammatical phrases." The fact that she uses proper English when she needs to is evidence of never judging a person's intelligence by their use of her English.
Many times, we are too close to our own writing to see the problems with it. Feedback is a useful tool to see which parts need to be developed, or which parts aren't clear enough. It is also a good tool to use for grammar and punctuation. The feedback would help to make my writing more concise, and easier to read, as well as stay on topic if I've deviated from the