In the text “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua the section that stuck out to me was the “Linguistic Terrorism” section. While reading, I found myself interested in the part where she talked about how a century later it will be very likely that Chicanos will be speaking English as their home language instead of Chicano Spanish. I found that statement upsetting due to the idea that they might end up losing their language because of how often they were speaking English. This made me think about how the U.S. society is impacting how I as well as many others use the languages we know. For the most part, the U.S forces people to understand and use English often. This can be seen in schools where they force everyone to get a good understanding of the language. Anzaldua gave an example of this in the text where she explained how all the Chicano students in her college had to take classes in order to get rid of their accent. It is also seen in many of the services we receive that we have to communicate to the people working there in English. Overall, the major language used to communicate with others in the U.S. is English. The society we live in today has made it difficult for many people to live in the U.S. that don’t understand English. They made English a necessity and forced everyone to normalize the use of it. Nowadays, I feel somewhat unconfident in my skills to speak my native language. Over the years I have gotten used to speaking English often and this led to me speaking my native language a lot less and that contributed to my overall feelings of being unconfident in speaking my language. I used to speak the language often at home but now I mostly speak English and only use my native language when talking to my parents. This is similar to how in the text the Chicanos felt that they were speaking Chicano Spanish around other Chicanos. I feel like it is important that people speak their native languages because the text mentioned how language can connect to our culture and identity so by losing our language we are losing a part of our identity and culture. There is a way we can sovle this problem and it involves people normalizing the use of other languages and normalizing that all variations of a language are valid within society. By doing this it can help to maintain the use of other languages and can help to prevent these languages from being removed from our identities