Even if an individual studies all the possible dictionaries of a random language, he would still be somewhat of a stranger to that language since he is unaware of all the dialectal changes. ... When people communicate in a style that is not valued in their culture they make judgments about the character and ability of the individual or group they represent. ...
"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... All he had to do was to commit him-self to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism, thus the Universalist ideological character of American nationality meant that it was open to anyone who willed to become an American....
To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and language, we never feel out of place" (Dizon). ...
