1. Yanyuwa: 'Men speak one way, women speak another'

In American culture, power is applied to masculine speech and vernacular. There is a hierarchy of power that deems the language of men more influential. In Yanyuwa culture the same power is placed on the male language because men are ridiculed for using the womans language even though that was his first language. However, there seems to be a mutual acceptance of the differences in the way that women speak and the way that men speak. They don't question why it is and neither gender seems to care, "'It's just the way it is, no other reason."' (19)