Diversity in languages has recently been crucial in the American society and almost everywhere we go, there’s a translator or an employee who speaks another language besides English; that wasn’t the case 10 years ago. I’ve had to translate countless times for my mom and it was especially hard when I was younger because I knew less English than I know now. Many times, we received annoyed glances from people behind us that were fed up for waiting for me to translate to an adult and other times we had employees give up on rephrasing what they were saying so I could find a way to say it in Spanish. I hated translating for my mom sometimes because I felt that as a 10 year old kid, that shouldn’t have to be my responsibility. Other times that I felt excluded was any times that my mom had to be the replacement for my dad. Growing up without my dad was bad enough, but it got a little worse every time my dad was needed at school, when people commented about my ‘fatherless’ family, or when Father’s Day rolled around. Fathers were also a crucial aspect of the American society, and I didn’t have
Diversity in languages has recently been crucial in the American society and almost everywhere we go, there’s a translator or an employee who speaks another language besides English; that wasn’t the case 10 years ago. I’ve had to translate countless times for my mom and it was especially hard when I was younger because I knew less English than I know now. Many times, we received annoyed glances from people behind us that were fed up for waiting for me to translate to an adult and other times we had employees give up on rephrasing what they were saying so I could find a way to say it in Spanish. I hated translating for my mom sometimes because I felt that as a 10 year old kid, that shouldn’t have to be my responsibility. Other times that I felt excluded was any times that my mom had to be the replacement for my dad. Growing up without my dad was bad enough, but it got a little worse every time my dad was needed at school, when people commented about my ‘fatherless’ family, or when Father’s Day rolled around. Fathers were also a crucial aspect of the American society, and I didn’t have