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A counterpoint to the claims of racism: my girlfriend, who is not a native English speaker but is close to fluent, has been watching some YouTube tutorials made
by esperent 4y ago
A counterpoint to the claims of racism: my girlfriend, who is not a native English speaker but is close to fluent, has been watching some YouTube tutorials made by an Indian woman with a strong accent. To me, the woman's accent is pleasant (I've also been watching the tutorials).
To my girlfriend, she is basically incomprehensible. She cannot follow the tutorials without subtitles and I can tell she's finding it frustrating. I can zip through them at 1.5x speed while she's struggling to even understand the tutors voice which doesn't seem fair.
So instead of labelling this as racism, perhaps we should rather be thinking about this in terms of accessibility?