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Richard Rodriguez Case Study

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Tom, I agree with your response that Rodriguez’s confidence to speak his native language decreased as he became more educated in the language of English after he and his family moved to the United States of America. This only happens because of curiosity that builds up within a person’s mind. Usually, when a person finds something interesting to learn, he or she tends to leave behind what he or she had started with to find out more on the mystery. In Rodriguez’s case, he slowly abandoned his native language of Spanish to discover more about the American culture the people around him celebrated. When you brought in your own experience almost identical to Rodriguez’s, I became more understanding as it also happened to me. When I was young, I

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