The Immigrant Journey

There's a beautiful piece in the book by amy tan who talks about how her mother who was the immigrant from china was always told that her english was incomplete and yet Amy needed to serve as a translator for the mother when she would call the doctor or a tax collector. And without including things like this which maybe of their time we don't understand how we got to the point today where we've completely erased sign language from the conversation you know. We are much more committed to teaching foreign languages on campus than we were before, i think that that is a statement of how the country has also been changing.