Questão FC586267
Read the excerpt below, in which Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience as a child with Mexican descent in the United States of America: I remember being caught speaking Spanish
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Instituto AOCP · 2025
Read the excerpt below, in which Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience as a child with Mexican descent in the United States of America:
I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess – that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler. I remember being sent to the comer of the classroom for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you want to be American, speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”
(…)
At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents. Attacks on one’s form of expression with the intent to censor are a violation of the First Amendment.
(…)
Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.
Reference: Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
In this passage, Anzaldúa
- describes the advantages of being bilingual.
- demonstrates linguistic prejudice and discrimination she suffered.
- explains that she does not like her Spanish accent.
- describes her teacher as welcoming towards a multilingual and multicultural perspective.
- affirms that she violated the law of the United States.
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Gabarito
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Comentário do professor
A passagem de Anzaldúa evidencia preconceito linguístico e a discriminação que ela sofreu.
Há exemplos claros de punição física por usar o espanhol: "caught speaking Spanish at recess – that was good for three licks on the knuckles". Isso revela hostilidade direta à sua língua materna.
O comentário da professora "If you want to be American, speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico" expõe rejeição cultural e deslegitimação da identidade da narradora.
A exigência de aulas para "get rid of our accents" mostra a dimensão institucional: uma pressão institucional para apagar traços linguísticos e assimilar o grupo.
Ao qualificar esses ataques como violação da liberdade de expressão, a autora relaciona o abuso pessoal à negação de direitos. Em conjunto, os trechos comprovam preconceito e discriminação linguística.
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