For example, Mellix describes how society has made African-Americans believe that their “customary way of speaking was inferior (Mellix, pg 339).”, adding that they felt “foolish, embarrassed, somehow diminished because we were ashamed to be our real selves (Mellix, Pg 340).” All five of the CSU students said that they felt rejected by their college community for being placed in remedial english. Both of the articles demonstrate that society tends to be critical of those who do not “conform” to the standard way of learning english in America.
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“Challenging Our Labels” describes five CSU students’ experiences with remedial english and the discrimination they have felt through it while “From the Outside In” details the experience of Barbara Mellix learning to how to mask her african-american dialect (Mellix refers to is as “black english” throughout the article) with her proper english to avoid being scrutinized. Two articles, “Challenging Our Labels: Rejecting the Language of Remediation”, written by five students from CSU and “From Outside In”, written by Barbara Mellix, expose the prejudice society directs to those who have had different experiences in learning how to read and write than the standard notion. We often think that there is only one “proper” way to learn to be literate, and those who don’t follow the standard are typically scrutinized quietly. It is what helps us intellectually evolve and become more successful however, everyone learns it at a different rate, or in a different way.
Literacy is an asset society takes for granted, an asset many people in other countries continue to fight to have access to.
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