Shared Country, Shared Language

Shared Country, Shared Language

The border has been defined as a social movement between two cultures. Speaking of our Latino culture, the language spoken is an important part representing our community. It is the essence of our roots, beliefs and somehow is connected with our education. As Sandra Cisneros (n.d.) once said “The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.” This can give us an idea of being part of a community that shares different languages and the importance of communicating properly with others. Not only in our region but in the world, increasingly there are coexisting different types of cultures and they are sharing their traditions, and now it is commonto live alongside a diversity of people.People living in a border area, like the Rio Grande Valley, can commonly find and recognize peoplecommunicating in three types of language: Spanish, English and Spanglish.

The United States and Mexico are divided or limited by the Rio Bravo in Mexico, in US known as Rio Grande.According to the International Boundary and Water Commission, the border has a length of 1951 miles. The river runs through the US states of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas as well as the Mexican states of Chihuahua,Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.The people now living in this area are mostly Mexicans and in some way are dominating Anglo-Saxon culture with the use of words in Spanish. I think we live in a neutral place, of race language and beliefs; there are the strong Mexican believe of being and respecting where people come from but being able to adapt to a new way of living because our country does not give us the opportunity of living a safe life, a good job,chancesnor the education our children need. We also leave family, friends beautiful places and really good moments in our country, but our family comes first. That’s why we make the opportunity and came to theUnited States to have a better life, but as truly Mexicans there are some strong bonds with our traditionand culture. But the American style of life takes possession of us; we stop eating tortillas and now we are eating Whataburger and McDonalds. We change our km to miles, centigrade to Fahrenheit, our pesos to get more dollars and yes we forget our Spanish to talk in English. In the border area using a pure language seems to be unusual, since the mixture of languages has caused intermediates, so we can call it Spanglish. Daily use has caused the mixing English and Spanish, using words of both languages.

In the United States there is no official language but the predominant language is English.I believe the importance of English is due to two major nations of the world who speak the language, England and the United Statesthese countries have imposed the use of English. And the two countries in question are true world powers for decades. Also the popularity of these countries and their cultures has been infiltrating

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