There are many stereotypes in the world. One stereotype is that wrestlers are out of control and do not respect authority. Another stereotype is that all Chinese people are discreet. Amy Tan discusses the reasons why the Chinese are stereotyped so, and how the stereotype is inaccurate during her essay “Language of Discretion”. In this essay, Tan uses her Chinese-American influences to illustrate the inaccuracy of the Chinese stereotyping. Although there are not even words for yes and no, there are ways to agree and disagree without being discreet. If the language had instead of specifying cats and dogs, it “…specified glatz, meaning ‘animals that leave fur on the sofa,’ and glotz, meaning ‘animals that leave fur and drool on the sofa’…” (Tan, 2014, p. 80). Even though there is a difference in these languages, the two mean the relatively the same. After being asked by one her friends how the Chinese say “yes” and “no” Tan replied that the reply is “…specific to what is being asked. [If you] [a]sk a Chinese person if he or she has eaten, and he or she might say chrle (eaten already) or perhaps meiyou (have not)” (Tan, 2014, p.84). According to this, there are ways for the Chinese to directly respond to a simple yes or no question even…show more content… While comparing languages “[s]omething insidious seeps into the gaps, especially when amateur linguists continues to compare, one-for-one, language differences and then put forth notions wide open to misinterpretation…” (Tan, 2014, p.80). These notions then lead to stereotyping such as all Chinese are discreet. According to Tan “Sapir said… ‘…No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality’” (Tan, 2014, p.81). Tan includes this in her essay because this quote elaborates on how the differences in culture changes the meaning of some of the phrases