Nick Serrao Blog Post 11/29

I believe that it better to preserve a culture’s history by encouraging writers to work in their home languages. This is because when a writer works in their home language, it is much more fluent and it sounds more or less real. Their writing becomes more passionate and it usually has more meaning behind it. Ngugi stated that there was an, “unequal relationship of power between languages” when it came to his mother tongue and english. There should not be an unequal relationship of power between languages, but unfortunately, if one language has more speakers than the other, then there may seem like there is an imbalance of power between the two. Rushdie spoke on the other side of this question and said, “The children of independent India seem not to think of English as being irredeemably tainted by its colonial provenance.” This shows that the children in British India are already used to using english in their writing, and they don’t have a problem with it. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice on whether the language you want to write in is the right language you should be writing in.