I for sure have experienced living in âbetween two different worldsâ especially when you’re your half american and half hispanic/latin. Traveling back to my hometown is wonderful but can make me feel like an outcast. You can tell right away I’m not from there because of the way I speak Spanish. It doesn’t have that accent that others who do live there have. But I also see that living in New York I feel like my English isn’t the same as everyone else, it has that this spanish accent which can make some words hard to pronounce. I feel like the language barrier makes it hard for me on both sides not knowing where I really fit in.
Because of my language barrier I feel like this has affected me in school a lot because I wouldn’t feel the most confident in speaking. Mostly being afraid I wouldn’t be able to pronounce it the right way or being judged on it. Even since I was little I think my language barrier has always come in between from having to translate for my mom in school when my teacher needed to talk to her. I feel like this is something I just have to adjust to and learn to embrace it because it’s something that identifies who I am.
Hey Ariana, I can understand the feeling of being an outcast and even having trouble with the sense of belonging. When I would travel to Mexico I was made fun of because my spanish sounds weird but its perfect here in the states, yet my english is off and ending up saying says and not saids. Its a clash of two worlds.
I like Miah’s comment: Clash of Two Worlds — could you use that as a working title for your piece?
Thx Miah!