Salvador Gutierrez P7 Jan. 17-22

This week in AP Psychology: we learned about socio-cultural theories.  It’s based on how culture, socio-economic status, birth order, school, peers, television, and parents shape your language.  I agree with this very much.  I don’t see any way possible how anyone can disagree with this theory.  It explains how language is different according to the region and decade.  Now that the world is “smaller,” there are even more differences among people and their languages.  I speak English with a southern California accent because I live in southern California.  And speak Spanish with a Michoacán accent because I spend more time with my mom and her side of the family rather than my dad’s side of the family, so I speak as if I was from Michoacán (mom) rather than Jalisco (dad).  When I say Michoacán, I mean San Jose de Gracia because that’s where my mom’s from.  When I say Jalisco, I mean Tepatitlan because that’s where my dad’s family is from.  The words I use is from a mix of Los Angeles (where I live), skaters (friends), Mexican (family), British (extensive watch of Monty Python, The Office BBC, and Fawlty Towers), and Whitney (school).  I am more aware of what I am saying now.  I think about where I got that word from.  This is a very useful tool that I should look into more.  It will help me with dialogue when coming up with video ideas and writing scripts because I will have a better understanding of how the character should speak.  Language is something that will never go away, it just grows and grows.