Choose one or two stories to learn about language issues in the lives of different individuals.
(1) The Conversation (27 July 2021). Yes, Naomi Osaka is Japanese. And American. And Haitian.
"...Our identities are complex, and they change over time. There is more to being Japanese than fluently speaking the Japanese language, looking Japanese or holding a Japanese passport ..."
(2) The Guardian (14 May 2011). 'Sign language is part of our identity'.
"Charlie Swinbourne and his partner are deaf. Their two children have full hearing but signing has bought them all closer together ..."
(3) Facing History and Ourselves (16 October 2019). Language Loss.Â
"Theodore Fontaine recalls being punished as a student at Fort Alexander Residential School for speaking the Indigenous language Ojibway. ... Here is how he describes his experience at the school ..."
(4) The Daily Q (no date). Speaking of Identity: The Effects of Language on Cultural Identity.
"... four freshmen from Northwestern University in Qatar explore what it means to be multilingual and its implications, drawing on their personal experiences ..."
(5) The Guardian (13 August 2016). If language tells us who we are, then who am I?
" ... My father says language tells us not just who we are but where we are. He is a wise man, it is wisdom that comes from the certainty of being. He is a Wiradjuri man: born and raised on his country, the country on which he lives still. ..."
(6) The Brave Study (14 September 2014). Cultural Identity and Language Barriers: My Story as an Immigrant.
"... My parents and I arrived in the United States on October 1994, all our possessions neatly packed in several boxes and suitcases.... Most of the classmates I had gone to school with also had parents who immigrated to the US, and many of us grew up in households where English was rarely, if ever, spoken at home ..."