How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua

This is a very intresting essay, I can say that it is the other side of the coin form "Los Vendidos." In Los Vendidos we have a big and very direct critic for chicanos, but here one chicana is telling us her story, of how difficult it is for her to feel accepted either in one country or another because she speaks "Spanglish."

"I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess-that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler."

With this she is telling us how everyone tried to correct her, but what no one can understand is the suffering that living in a frontier of 2 different countries implays... to be judeged by everyone most of the times. Her way of speaking is something no one can change, because where she lives everyone speaks like that. 

"For some of us, language is a homeland closer than the Southwest-For many chicanos today live in the Midwest and the East."

 So I can really say that this people that suffer of critizism from both countries, Mexico and the USA, have a story that makes us think different, the way they speak is not intentional, it is just the way they are. Remember that the coin has to faces...