Speak American!
by Cynthia Pleitez
As a bi-lingual Latina, speaking Spanish in America does not make me any less American than those who have the ill-fate of only being able to communicate in English.
As a child I was never ashamed to speak Spanish. Spanish was a comfort zone and I was a magician dancing with words in one language and switching to another effortlessly. As my native language, it took 21 years before I discovered that I had been incorrectly pronouncing the word pizza as “pixa” just as my parents always had.
But all good things come to end, and as I encountered more people outside of my own Spanish culture, I
