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Originally Posted by AtlTournant  I
I found out the hard way how sensitive this issue can be a years ago when I jokingly asked a co-worker to speak the King's English because I could not understand the amount of slang he was using.Suddenly I was the "White B***h" holding him down because I didn't want him to express his Afro-American culture...it honestly floored me because he was really serious. |
LOL LOL I think we have all met some.... I have also met the opposite, people who get upset because they are expected to act/speak/understand in a stereotypical way, and they do not. I have met a few folks from Africa or direct decendents of those who were, and they do not speak in "ebonics" , in fact many there actually have British accents, and are very proper, respectful people.
Why is it that people from all over the world will do anything to be Americans, but those who live here insist on being called "XYZ"-American- even those who are many generations removed from the families' country of origin. In other countries, you are just that... no hyphenated anything.... regardless of skin colour or where your ancestors came from.
I wonder if our need to identify ourselves, also isolates us????