Gloria Anzaldua's Friends From The Other Side

Cambiar para major- Change for the better On December 26 1822, the Minister of Washington had announced to the public that“ They will be our sworn enemies, and foreseeing this we ought to treat them as such from the present day” (Rippy 2). As he had been referring to America’s relationship with Mexico, it is not surprising that the conflict between the Mexican- American borders has been constant since the early 1700. Due to the hatred between these countries, it has caused it people to become prejudice to their neighbors as they think less of one another and lack respect towards each other. As Gloria Anzaldua had shown this segregation in her children’s book Friends from the other side, She uses characterization and code switching to represent tension in and around Mexican-American borders in
As Anzaldua shows to be a master of code switching as she constantly switched between Spanish and English, the book is still segregating language and creating language barriers. Friends from the other side is sold in Canada and America, therefore it is to no surprise that the English texts always come before the Spanish in this book. By inspecting this book further, it appears to continue to segregate language as the English title is larger and more prominent then the Spanish title and the back of the book is not translated in Spanish thus directed to people that are English speakers. This evidence shows the dominance of English and how language barriers have segregated different languages and have forced them to stay separate instead of merging together. By looking at language segregation, it is interesting to see what lengths a society will go to, too make sure that language does not intertwine together. How to tame a wild tongue also written by Anzaldua directly shows the enforcement of language segregation and what society does to make sure that their people