A path to embrace difficulties Even when we do not notice, words have a huge impact in the culture that’s speaks the language and the culture has an impact in the meaning of the language. Given this, there is certainly a relationship between a word’s intention and the reaction it gets, instead of the actual meaning, we create words and give them the meaning (Rahman ). The n word is one of the most controversial words nowadays, if not the most. These is because of the loaded historical background that it carries with it, this word is seen to be completely ligated to violence and intimidation that happened during the 19th century to the African-American race. The negative connotation has not always been there and it should not be, nowadays the word implies identity and honor to be a “nigga” , this word and what comes with it should not be forgotten, instead the survival of the race and the unity it shows should be embraced. The n-word has not always had a negative connotation, what most people know is that it came from the Latin word meaning black and it was used to refer to slaves during the 19th century. Besides this there are other variations to the word from ages farther ago that show a good meaning of the word, it …show more content…
On the other hand if a word is seen as socially un-accepted, when someone wants to offend an African American they will still use it and in this context it will now only bring to their minds the reason why it is not accepted and society will never get to the point were a word like this has no longer a bad effect on