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I am astonished by what I am reading in the comments. I've been living in the UK for almost 6 years now and not a single time I've felt I've been judged or mist
by Octabrain 4y ago
I am astonished by what I am reading in the comments. I've been living in the UK for almost 6 years now and not a single time I've felt I've been judged or mistreated because of my accent or even my lack of language skills the first year I was here. Worth mentioning that I definitely don't look like I am native (I am from Africa). Worth mentioning too that I have not been living in a bubble, exposed myself to a short set of interactions. Mind boggling.
- JetSetWilly 4y agoPeople with foreign accents typically escape the ladder of judgement. I think it is well observed that people with various American or Australian or European accents aren't really pigeonholed to some specific class on basis of their accent alone.
- blibble 4y agoas someone who went to a bad school in a poor area with a regional accent, now working mostly with people who went to independent schools in the South East: I think I've had one person very mildly comment on my accent in my professional career (pronunciation of "garage") I wouldn't pay that much attention to the comments as it's almost entirely the usual set of "UK bad" professional contrarians (not to say that the class system still isn't prevalent, it definitely is, but not in the way they say)