While there isn’t a formal definition of “sounding white” anecdotally I have plenty of friends of color that routinely joke about pulling out their “white voice

While there isn’t a formal definition of “sounding white” anecdotally I have plenty of friends of color that routinely joke about pulling out their “white voice” in certain settings (professional, addressing “authority”, etc). This YouTube series covers it quite a bit: https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A Myself I have a very vanilla non-regional American accent (think Walter Cronkite) and they often point out just how “white” I sound. I also have family with more regional American accents (Upper Midwest, Southern) and as a child they’d often make fun of my “accent”. My response was always “turn on your TV, they sound like I do everywhere”: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/196999/why-do-newscasters-all-talk-the-same-what-would-happen/ https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/196999/why-do-newsca... This can be seen in a somewhat-humorous old YouTube clip: https://youtu.be/g-Neg4NmChk https://youtu.be/g-Neg4NmChk