https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh en-us 2023-03-07 18:06:46 UTC 2025-11-04 19:14:08 UTC hello@padlet.com emmaleilani04 https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507342341 “Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says: 'We are the same.' A language barrier says 'We are different.'” (p.49)

When meeting new people, if you don’t speak the same language you can’t form connections or relate to one another since you can’t communicate. By having the same language, it is easier to form connections, it brings people together.

]]> 2023-03-07 18:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507342341 emmaleilani04 https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507343562 “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”

Your language you grow up with is your identity and how you grow up so it goes straight to your heart because it is what you know and how you identify.]]> 2023-03-07 18:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507343562 emmaleilani04 https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507345805 "For a long time I didn’t understand why so many black people had abandoned their indigenous faith for Christianity. But the more we went to church and the longer I sat in those pews the more I learned about how Christianity works: if you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense." (pg. 6)

Your culture dictates how you act, how people perceive you, and can determine your identity.]]> 2023-03-07 18:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507345805 emmaleilani04 https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507347232 "Since I belonged to no group I learned to move seamlessly between groups. I floated. I was a chameleon, still a cultural chameleon." (p. 140-141)

Trevor could never fully identify with one cultural group and felt himself floating between different groups he can relate to.]]> 2023-03-07 18:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507347232 emmaleilani04 https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507349653 “I wasn't popular but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.” (pg. 140-141)

Trevor moved between groups a lot so he related to a lot of people, but always had his core identity that never budges. ]]> 2023-03-07 18:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaleilani04/2y11tx3kx7fi1dbh/wish/2507349653