Question

select the correct answer.
in \mother tongue,\ how does amy tan demonstrate language bias toward her mother?
a. she believed her mothers thoughts were unimportant because she expressed them imperfectly.
b. she refused to go out with her mother in public because she was ashamed of her accent.
c. she only spoke perfect standard english with her mother in an attempt to make her mother speak more clearly.
d. she would not impersonate her mother on the phone when making important calls for her.

Explanation:

In Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue," the author reflects on her past bias where she associated her mother's non-standard, "broken" English with a lack of intellectual depth, wrongly dismissing the value of her mother's ideas due to her imperfect language expression. The other options do not align with the specific language bias described in the text.

Answer:

A. She believed her mother's thoughts were unimportant because she expressed them imperfectly.