Effects In Communication
Do you think ethnicity affects communication? Sherlyn Diaz a student at Wake Tech Community College did a survey with some of her family members asking them this question. Sherlyn asked her sister Jennifer Diaz. Jennifer reacted really quick and said of course! She said it depends on the culture and also how deep that person accent is. That causes human beings issues understanding each other. Language can affects communication by dividing or unifying people.
First of all, one way language can divides or unify people is through gender. In “Sex,Lies,and communication” by Debora Tannen. She discusses the sound of silence in marriage. Man and women have a lot of difference when it comes to having to communicate as a couple. Women always feel like it's good to sit and talk about life and how everything's going. On the other hand man just want to get home and relax. According to
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In “Leave your name at the border” by Manuel Munoz he talks about how his stepfather had to change his name to get employed in Dinuba. Dinuba is a city with a diversity of many different races. Munoz stepfather got hired doing fieldwork, but he only got the job because he went from Antonio to Tony. Munoz states “My stepfather’s experience with Anglicization of his name-Antonio to Tony-ties into something bigger than learning English. For him, the erasure of his name was about deference and subservience.Becoming Tony gave him a measure of access as he struggled to learn English and get more fieldwork”(82). Munoz point is that his stepfather had to change his name to blend in with everyone else, but that is one of the reasons why language can divide people by names or race. Munoz stepfather is not happy about that change but he has to do it to be able to support his family. On the other hand that divides Munoz stepfather and his bosses because of the discrimination he is having to put up with just to get a