Being an immigrant in the United States, Amy Chua notes how the English language was hostile as they grew up. The law professor emphasizes that immigrants must assimilate by adopting the English language as the common language in the United States. Amy’s voice is eminent in the text by using both short and longer sentences to express her dynamic thoughts on the idea of immigrants. The use of her experience as a young child where she was caned for speaking English represents her voice. She uses various towns as a reference point to support her claims on immigrant language. She gives examples of towns where Spanish is the common language, including Miami in Florida (Chua, 2008). Chua does not use any logical fallacy, but her ideas are solid based on anti-immigrant mistakes made, maintaining cultural heritage, making English the official language, and making the United States an equal opportunity immigration magnet. Chu’s reading fully complies with academic writing as the paragraphs are short, have appropriate sentences, and are well punctuated.
Immigrants must assimilate the United States virtues for peace and prosperity to rule. Immigrants tend to spread their culture, which may prove more significant than the land’s culture. In the United States, most immigrants use their language and go to the far of punishing their children for every English word uttered. A place like Miami in Florida is popular with Spanish, and one would think it is Spain (Chua, 2008). Other places like Chinatowns and little Italy are other places that speak native foreign languages sparingly. It must, however, be known that in as much as diversified cultures contribute to prosperity, they may also lead to a fall. Great empires like Rome, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union failed following mixed cultures (Garcia et al., 2019). There is a need for immigrant assimilation for peace and harmony to prevail.
References
Chua, A. (2008). Immigrate assimilate. The Seattle Times. Web.
Garcia, R., Smart, S., Nebieridze, G., Zubair, Mark, Fred, and Kenny. (2019). Top 10 countries that disappeared in the 20th century. Web.