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Stereotypes In Mother Tongue By Amy Tan

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“Mother Tongue”, written by Amy Tan, speaks to Asian Americans, arguing that they do not have to go into STEM careers because of limited English. Tan tells the story of her experience with speaking different types of English and the effects of it on her life, and how she breaks those stereotypes by becoming a writer. She opens her piece by a realization that she speaks a vastly different form of English than she speaks with her mother, who is a Chinese immigrant. Tan often speaks in “carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened with nominalized forms…” however, with her mother, she uses shorter phrases, since her mother does not speak an abundance of English (Tan page 29). Tan gives multiple accounts where she has had to speak for her mother
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