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I grew up in the rural south, and was explicitly taught that our accent would be perceived this way. It served me well, maybe; I was always aware of my accent a
by magneticnorth 6y ago
I grew up in the rural south, and was explicitly taught that our accent would be perceived this way. It served me well, maybe; I was always aware of my accent and able to camouflage it and eventually lose it almost entirely when I went away to college.
- finder83 6y agoI'm similar in that I learned to hide my west Texas accent pretty well. I've started to embrace my accent more though in that it's always useful when people reveal their prejudices, and I'd rather people take me as I am. Otherwise they're probably not worth my time. There are situations where it's actually useful though to lay it on thick. My father was an expert at that, particularly after people tried to take advantage of them and he called their bluff, usually playing it up with, "Ya know, I don't know much 'bout this, but I was talkin' with a lawyer friend the other day, and he mentioned something about..."