Standardized English is a requirement in today’s society in the country we all live in, the 

United States of America. However, making it imperative that people must speak 

Standardized English, or Standard American English, is discriminative on an 

institutional, systemic, and societal level. Many people who speak other types of English 

are deemed as “unprofessional” and “illegitimate.” Immigrants, whose first language isn’t 

English, are denied basic needs and not taken seriously by Institutions who deny them 

those needs. For example, a person who meets all qualifications of a job but doesn’t 

speak Standard English would be considered unfit for the role and rejected by job 

markets. One community that faces those negative effects is the Asian-American 

community.

The Asian Community is one community that is affected by the requiem of 

Standardized English but they aren’t given as much importance as the Hispanic or Black 

Communities when it comes to discussing the problems faced with dealing with requiring 

Standard English, given the stigma that South Asians are treated better than Hispanics 

and Blacks based on the economic and educational opportunities given to them. However, 

The truth is plain and simple that Asian accents can lead to language barriers and 

Obstacles for Asians trying to navigate normal life in America, when it comes to 

Navigating healthcare, the job market, and other forms of communication and services.  

People aren’t even to tell what they are able to say, also, because of the different 

Word stresses and pronunciations that Standardized English doesn’t have, making 

Communication among different English speakers is more difficult and frustrating to 

some. The access to healthcare part is one very challenging for non-native South Asian 

speakers to communicate about, because medical companies wouldn’t understand their

Issues or end up not taking them seriously, denying certain medical needs the patient with

A “strong” accent has, leading to complications in the patient’s health and wellbeing. 

Despite Standardized English helping people to communicate, the effects of learning it

Can lead to a loss of heritage and the disregard of cultural roots throughout generations,

Given that accents allow a person to realize where they first came from prior to learning

How to speak English, and adopting Standardized English would mean Americanizing 

Oneself leaving behind their cultural roots. Plus, the expectation of speaking and 

Understanding Standard English can lead to self-esteem decreases in people who haven’t

Achieved it despite not being able to fully grasp it or even the concept of it. This whole 

Language discrimination leads to the radicalization of American speakers against foreign 

speakers of English, in a view called the “white listening subject”, which uses the ideas 

and concepts of “racial visibility” and “foreignness” and weaponizes it against the 

non-native speaker, making it so that the speaker supposedly fulfills a stereotype,

Which can be usually harmful to their group, like the “model minority” myth. 

To explain the “model minority” myth, it’s a belief that if a person works hard and “grits 

their teeth”, they’ll be able to achieve their dreams, which overshadows the challenges 

and even injustices they face, such as, like as said in the beginning of the passage, being 

Denied social services because they couldn’t be understood by their speech, which also 

Reduces their chances of success, according to verywellmind.com. In a study conducted 

by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, taken in 2001, which used White,

Hispanic, and Asian patients as subjects, Hispanic and Asian patients are more likely 

Than White patients to report that their doctors did not listen to everything they said 

Given that English wasn’t their first language. Among the test subjects, many reported 

that their accents prevented them from “having a higher quality of care”. This became 

More of a concern given that Language and Health Literacy are powerful social 

determinants of health. Coming back to the Asian community, the requiem for 

Standardized English to be mastered in speaking and conversing in order to boost 

Chances of making it in the job market as a gateway to massive global opportunities in 

fields like Technology, business, academia, and healthcare, is considered a positive factor 

in order to get a job and be able to afford a life in the United States or globally, but it 

Usually then leads to social inequality, with the development of a “social hierarchy”, 

Where financial success is based on proficiency of speaking English, with people who 

speak it the best have the most success in the job market, and those who don’t speak it as 

proficiently are associated with the least success, or more likely “to fail”, intensifying 

Certain systemic inequalities.

Link to Translation 2:

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