Essay

In many cultures language is very important. In the story “My Hawaii” by Nana Veary states that language, culture, and pride are very important. I agree with Nana. Language shows who you are, where you come from, Pride shows how much you love your race, and culture shows who you are and how you live its your way of life. For example my grandma told me once, “If you don’t like speaking Spanish then you don’t like being Mexican, and you don’t like the food!!” Nowadays I take pride in my culture, and language.
Language is very important for many cultures. For example in the story “My Hawaii” states that if you forget your language you forget who you are, where you are, and you lose your identity. Language is the way of life, its how you communicate with one another, with people you don’t know and the people who you do know. With out language no one will be able to communicate with one another. Language is the way of life. I’m glade to know that we know are language and other languages.
Pride is very important in any culture. In the story “My Hawaii” she mentions about pride. Pride is very important, it shows who you, and it keeps ones culture alive. Without pride any culture would fall. Pride shows how much people love there culture. For example, the Barbarians in the 3400BC were forced by the Rome to change the way they live and culture. The barbarians fought to the end, because they take pride in there culture and didn’t want to change the way they lived. So they fought for Language, Culture, and they had Pride. Pride to me is like is like a fire in all of “us”. It burns and grows when you eat, speak, act, the way your culture is. If you reject your culture the flame in you will die out and you will lose your pride. This is what I think what culture means.