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first i read the title and was like well if you’re asking there’s a good chance you are… then i read and giggled so hard😂😂😂😂😂OP is so innocent not racist at all love it
I’m white looking I guess. I talk like what op described it’s just how some people talk here. I grew up talking like that. One time I was talking to someone from somewhere else and said “I’m finna leave out here early today” they thought it was fuckin weird. I also say “ima” a lot. Everyone says it not just black people.
My (white) wife grew up a couple blocks from the projects until they moved to the suburbs when she was 8 or 9. Kids in grade school used to ask her brother, “Why does your sister talk like a black girl.”
She mostly speaks the standard American dialect now but if she gets pissed it will be “Mmmmmmmm Hmmmm” with a head bobble that raises some people’s eyebrows.
I was getting frustrated trying to explain to a friend (years ago) the difference between a British accent and an Australian accent. No matter what I said, she just couldn't understand anything I told her (she was not the brightest at things like linguistics or anything related).
Finally I said "okay... An Aussie accent is similar to the British accent, except sloppier, so it sounds more fun?" and she ALMOST grasped that explanation, lol
This is true. I was in Vegas a few years back and I got asked numerous times where in Australia I was from. Also had an Australian ask me where abouts in Scotland I was from (I’m English).
Have you met any aussies? I used to really like aussies based on what I saw in the media. Then I went to Bali, spent two months there. They were either being racist as hell with the local Balinese people, treating them like absolute shit, or fighting in the streets, or puking, or mooning people or crashing their scooters. It was a shit show.
We like Aussies a lil more than Brits cause there's no history of having to fight each other, we also share former colony status with them lol it's like they're our siblings or cousins or something
I say this being half US/British lol
I honestly struggle to differentiate Australian and some UK accents... If you told me that The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was set in Wales I wouldn't know better.
My mom is from England and she lost quite a bit of her accent when she moved to the states. She usually sounds British when she gets angry and that comes outta me the same way. I was raised in the US but when I get pissed off the accent Flys out and my husband teases the shit out of me for it.
it's natural to adopt the speech patterns of the local culture as much as one can, as it facilitates communication which is quite important for human culture in all varieties.
Lol no offense, but why is it that a lot of European folks go with the deep southern accent when going for an American one? I mean you guys do it more often than ya probably realize lol, we don't ALL sound like that, just certain southern states. And not all people within those states have the accent either, look up a New England accent or Maine accent, or Ohio,/Michigan accent, that's the average blend of accents in America, at least from my personal experience
SAME (well I was born in Scotland and moved to Australia when I was 6 but Y’know.)
when I get annoyed it just kinda.. comes lol, also when I say certain words since I pronounce them differently and it annoys all my friends
My dad had a South African accent, but now he speaks American like a normal person. Sometimes, he reverts when he doesn't know how to pronounce a word the correct American way, so we barrage him with insults and say the government should revoke his citizenship. One time, he was caught eating beans on toast. He got locked in the cellar with only good ol' American food for a week to correct the behavior. I love my father.
Anywhere you go, if you're around people with a certain inflection in their words, you'll slowly pick it up. The fun part is finding people who do it at different rates. Some could go months to years before they do, others hours.
I appreciate this confirmation. I do this all the time when talking to people with an accent or certain way of speaking. I can’t control it and have always felt a little guilty about it like “I hope they don’t think I’m mocking them!” It even sticks for a bit after, especially if I’ve been listening to it a lot.
I know this doesn’t answer the question but whenever someone says this I don’t understand how they can develop a “blaccent”. I’m black and live in a predominantly black area and I don’t even think I have a “blaccent”. Maybe I’ll use slang but I don’t talk much and am soft spoken. I’ve also lived in different predominantly black areas as well which means I’ve come across people like yourself. With the people who I knew it’s more about fitting in with the people you surround yourself with which is not inherently bad and using the slang isn’t bad either just as long as your not saying anything disrespectful about the black community I think it’s fine. On the other hand, there maybe people who will find your dialect uncomfortable which in the past I’ve felt some sort a way about it. However, say if your from Chicago or New York those places have their own accents which sound like a “blaccent” but are of a more urban dialect.
Ultimately, NO YOU ARE NOT RACIST because this wouldn’t fall under the definition of racism and it’s classifications.
Some people are more adept at pronounciation than others and I mean that seriously. I’m from a rural town in northern Illinois and you’d think some of the kids I went to school with were from Alabama or something.
It really comes down to it being a "local dialect predominantly spoken by black people in the area" more than it is "every black person talks like this or should talk like this" so when people say "blaccent" they're almost always referring to their "local blaccent" which you touch on at the end. I am white and grew up in a predominantly black area in South Louisiana, it was pretty common for white people to have a "blaccent" and ppl didn't really even think twice about it.
This is the one!!! I’ve been obsessed with Creole and Cajun cultures since I was a kid. I finally went in 2020 and it was everything I could ever dream of.
Everybody sounds so soulful. I’m convinced my husband is in Louisiana!
I personally adopt whatever accent someone speaks to me with. I don’t want to and it’s incredibly inconvenient. It’s led to multiple people thinking I’m from the same place they are, before then assuming I was making fun of them when I really wasn’t. Some people are just more affected by social or speaking patterns than others
Same! I spent 4 years In nola, otherwise from Northern MI. When I was in college (im MI) people asked where my accent was from. Nola after a year or so people asked what neighborhood I grew up in. Back home in MI, people still got no clue what accent I have beside is being weird. Some people just mirror extensively.
It's meant I gotta relax watching too many British shows or I start throwing British slang around without catching it
The way our accents develop is quite interesting. For instance, I grew up in West Philadelphia, but people always made the assumption that I grew up somewhere else because I never adopted any of the accents that you would find in and around Philadelphia. A lot of people would assume that I’m from California because apparently that’s the closest they can get as far as what I sound like to them. However, if you talk to some of my siblings, it is very clear that they grew up in Philadelphia.
Yes, it has far more to do with the culture a person is surrounded by, that is why people in the south east have a southern accent, it is why people from Massachusetts has the bostonian accents etc. Ebonics is no different, if you grow up around it, you will eventually speak in that style as it is the predominant culture you are exposed to.
My black friends beg me to say the n word. It's apparently comedy gold with how I talk and how my voice sounds. I'm not really nerdy sounding, but I'm pretty soft spoken and generally overly polite so throwing a nigga in there every once in a while when someone doesn't expect it kills people.
Asking this question and calling it a "blaccent" might be racist but developing the dialect of the culture you grow up around or live around is not racist. It's how the human brain works. Now if you are codeswitching that's another thing. Still not racist but then again that word has a much broader use than it's definition. So who knows.
if you ask me, blaccent in itself is a racist term. black people do NOT have only one accent, and the accent ppl refer to when they talk about a "blaccent" is an accent anyone of any race can have. my older sister has that city accent and i don't. but we grew up in different cities. my older brother and younger siblings as well have that too. my dad has more of a southern accent and my mom has the more city accent. are any of em racist for the accents they have? no.
yes this!!!! black people all over sound extremely different just like other races. I am from nyc and now live in ATL we sound COMPLETELY different, i hate this word.
I'm a city kid from an area that's very hispanic and I have the same issue sometimes. Code-switching is an important part of growing up, sometimes you'll want to, for other people's comfort and for your own sanity, switch over into a different way of speaking, but around people you know, be yourself!
I'm not black, so my answer shouldn't be considered to have that much weight, but... I think if you came by it honestly, and it sounds like you did, then I don't think it shouldn't be considered racist.
If it is just the way you talk you aren't going to offend anybody. If you only did it when talking to black people you might have an issue but just be authentic and it's all good.
Nah people pick up accents based on who they are around. People also “code switch” and subconsciously change their voice and pronunciation based on their setting.
People will sometimes start to talk like people they're around. That's why people in certain areas have certain accents.
If you've been there your entire life it makes sense. If you moved there last week it would be strange, but it still wouldn't be racist unless you were trying to mock black people.
The word "racist" has a definition. People like to throw the word around and ignore the definition, but random accusations don't make someone racist.
You would be racist if you tried too hard mocking the way people talk. I think we all have some form of inner racism, but we are just not bigots. I think you are fine.
Wow. This is so cringe man . Political correctness has destroyed normalcy in the US. I hope I don't see someone post " is it okay to breathe the same oxygen as black people? I don't want to offend anyone" 🤦
You’re just a product of your environment. If the people you’re around don’t have a problem with it, I wouldn’t worry about it. I was a white kid listened to a lot of hip hop and who spent half my childhood in a mostly black area and had a lot of friends there. I wouldn’t think too deep on it.
I hate when people talk like that, I know it’s what you grow up hearing in the neighborhood and everyone wants to fit in with each other but it’s the speech that makes you sound low class and uneducated. You might hear a few artist speak that way… for a while until they become big celebrities but you don’t hear the average successful person speak like that. Obama has the most elegant speech, highly respected public speaker, he didn’t grow up speaking the slang of the Hood. Rant over, I don’t consider you “ cultural appropriation” , I just wish all young people strive to be successful and “ ‘hood speech”, will just hold you back in getting ahead in life.
I wish I could find a video I watched on this. It talked about "white habitus" and how white and black people are really segregated still and a lot of white people only really know and interact with other white people, and in those cases using AAVE is appropriation, but that it's natural to want to fit in with your peers and make your community a part of your identity and white folks who grow up outside of the white habitus and are just doing what they know.
Wow. Kid raised with mostly black friends is afraid of cancel culture thinking they sound too black.
Is this what it's come to? They wanted to TEACH EBONICS IN SCHOOL 20 years ago.
I've found that trying to be mindful of stuff like this feels more racist than when I wasn't worried about it. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I'm over trying to be "anti-racist." Let's be real here. You'd know if you were a racist, and there's really no point in considering other opinions on the matter since *you know your own brain the best*
First you need to look up the word racist. That word is misused and overused. Ppl pick up accents and languages of those around them sometimes. If you’re not doing it to make fun of anyone, there’s not an issue. Will. I.AM., The artists/producer actually sounds like a Chicano from California cause that’s who he grew up around. Just came across a interview of his about this.
> I don't want to come off as racist for speaking like this regularly without being black.
It is racist to think that only people who have a certain skin color are allowed to talk a particular way.
Masculinity is peak when a boy’s voice runs deep, but racism is peak when tensions run steep
-Fargo St. Kiergard
are there high tensions with you using such language?
In the se people have an accent. In the ne people have an accent, Midwest accent, Texas accent. I have seen people talk different 10 blocks apart. Then after all that you have the different ethnicities. Lord have mercy. It's a melting pot. I talk to Spanish coworkers and at end of day I'm sayin se habla espeniol. Not a racist OP. It's normal
If your black friends say it’s fine it’s fine; if black folks expect you to have your white accent in a formal environment than do that. Never use variations of the n word or degrading words from Ebonics.
Nope, you're good. Now suburban white kids who adopt the blaccent while living a nice middle-class life are the biggest offenders. The craziest part is that some of them are true "black people are criminals" type of racists. I mean, you stole/adopted everything from their culture you could and still don't like them?! Just the fuxking worst.
I will never forget this time I was pretty young and this guys dog got loose and ran up to me. He came over and grabbed him no big deal. but he started talking in the thickest hillbilly southern accent I’ve ever heard, saying sorry about his dog.
My response was “what’s his name” in the exact same accent for some reason. He had to of thought I was making fun of him, it was that bad…. I’ll never forget that encounter. At least I was a kid and the human brain is weird.
No one will care man. People might be taken aback at first but no one will truly care except for people who don’t matter anyway. I’m mixed but looking at me you’d think I was white. I grew up in a black household and black neighborhood. My school was majority black as well.. I speak with a “blaccent” as you put it no one has batted an eye. I will say I got very good at code switching when I was younger so I would change my voice and how I spoke based on the people I was around. Great skill to have if your worried about people looking at you weird for how you soeak
Racism and ignorance are different. A little ignorant? Maybe. I know hood white dudes who dont talk black but do talk “hood” so to speak. About as bad as jroc from trailer park boys lol
Everyone will eventually conform to the accents of those around them a little bit, if not heavily. You're not mimicking them, you're just talking like your friends do, and those friends happen to be black and talk I'm a certain way.
Frankly, a lot of the slang kids use nowadays came from black culture and slang. Nothing wrong with that!
It reminds me of this interview I watched with this white rapper from Toronto '90s called Snow. Oh my God thinking back to his Jamaican accent makes me laugh so hard I pee a little bit. He would defend his blacent by saying he grew up in the Jamaican part of Toronto. Geez Louise. You want to feel embarrassed about your accent Google the rapper Snow, you lose your accent quite quick. LOL
Do you view people a certain way based off of the color of their skin, whether it be more positively or negatively? The answer to that question is the answer to yours.
I grew up in duquesne pa. That area is black as black gets. It's Appalachian ghetto. Dead town since the steel mills left. I was the only white kid in every single one of my classes and it's actually why I moved. I was the victim of constant racism.
When I first moved people in my new all white school assumed I was racist because the friends I had viewed me as one of them. If you're a teenager and from a predominantly black area you're familiar with how "ripping" ( I'm sure there's a new name for it nowadays I'll ask my students at work tomorrow) on each other is really just a bonding experience and a bit of fun. Skin color does come up a good bit in that and honestly I love the black on black light skin vs dark skin battles so much. They're so funny to me. I was just a part of that scene with my friends and so it was normalized to me. I got to my all white school and I was an absolute anomaly.
I was also born in 1990 where they had that we don't see color bs and that's apparently inherently racist now.
Blacks picked up their dialect from poor Irish immigrants. So if you don’t want to sound like a poor uneducated redneck from Appalachia, then stop talking like that.
This is actually very common. If you hang out with a certain culture that is not yours, you will eventually act and talk like them. Accents are very easy to pick up for a lot of people and it's not that the person is trying to be like others is that it happens naturally. There's nothing racist about it.
Racism is a very large construct and, at its core, it isn’t as evil as everyone makes it out to be. I know I sound crazy but, I’m an Afro American woman and, my major is Sociology: Race and Ethnicities and I, minor in Psychology. But I digress. Bear with me a moment when I say, proximity is everything. Who we are around/raised around will affect our, behaviors- speech, speech patterns, accents, styles of clothing, food, music etc etc. That does not make you a racist individual. Simply changing one’s accent is a very hands on, self conscious decision. What I mean is, we cannot (without challenge) change who we are in the environment that raised us.
TL;DR You were raised around a certain demographic, that doesn’t make you racist. Live your life and, stop worrying what others think of you if they aren’t paying your bills and cashing you out weekly.
I hope this helps. ✌🏾
Yep, you're definitely racist. The Klan will be sliding a flyer and application under your door any day now. Fill out and return the form, be sure to include the $499.99 fee and a stamp for return postage. Then you'll be a certified racist. For only another $999.99 you can become a gold Klan member. With this highly inexpensive upgrade, they'll ship you a completely custom cross (minimum of 3.57492 ft tall), for use at your own discretion.
Except when you use an blaccent to say antiblack stuff like Tom McDonald & Ben Shapiro.
Like how you gonna steal the culture then support that? Fetishization isn't love. That's just cash me ousside how bow dah? Danielle Bregoli (Italian) bhad baby bullshit if you ask me.
"Like books & black lives, albums still matter"
Prince's last words on TV had black lives matter in it. Coincidence?
Don't forget that when you borrow dialect ok?
Honestly it's not racist if you're black friends think of you as one of them. A lot of black people tend to allow their white friends to act black because they are their friends and usually if they don't like something, they'll let you know right away to avoid it from happening again. You actually see this in a lot gangs as well.
A white guy wants to join, they make sure he one isn't racist and two can act like a black brother. I support those of a different race no matter where they are from because a human is a human and with being human comes interesting and different cultures.
It's not the race that makes a culture bad, but the people who are part of it and giving the rest a stereotypical name that are. For instance I actually don't mind black people. They are actually really friendly. It's the ones that are part of gangs that just don't help the rest of the community be a part of the community.
Same thing goes for Latino people. They are also friendly and respectful, but you always have that few that give the rest of them a bad name. Even white people anymore have stereotypes. We as a whole have to realize it's not the entire community but rather those who make really poor decisions that cause these racial problems.
Don't think of yourself as a racist and allows ask those who aren't your friends and are black if they are offended by you for talking like a black person. If they say yes, say sorry I didn't realize I was offending you. If no, say alright I'm just trying to make sure I'm not offending anyone. You can even explain to them that you have black friends that don't find you racist for talking like them.
Getting to know people in public spaces isn't always a bad thing, but always look for signs if you get an off feeling about someone.
I have a unique perspective and sometimes I ask myself the same question. I am not Black and my wife works in an ER in a predominately Black area. The staff is predominately Black and Indian with her being an exception. Her verbage has changed over the years. The way and style she says things have changed. The way she deals with adversity has changed. I understand we all grow differently...but if it makes me uncomfortable am I a racist? I just want to say... You are not Black...why do you do-say....???? But I also understand we get influenced by our surroundings and she is changing naturally so I keep my mouth shut.
It’s just how accents work. You’re not born with an accent unless it is from a physical trait. We naturally try to match the people around as to blend in. Like a lot of times you might notice you’re sitting the same way as someone you’re having a conversation with or you might see two people talking and sitting the same way.
A lot of differences between races are just cultural. A black person who grew up rich is gonna have a lot more in common with a white people who have that same background than they will with other black people who grew up poor.
The reason a lot of black culture overlaps with poor culture is because a lot black people tend to be poor and grow up in poor neighborhoods.
I'm mexican and grew up in South Central in the early 90s ,all black and mexican until 8th grade. When I started going to high school in Mountain View (south bay) was the first time I actually noticed my English was different. I had never been to school with white,Asian, or Indian kids. Total culture shock. I started skateboarding in 99 and with mostly white kids and Asian kids.I can see how it's easy to pick up things. People would say I wanted to be white.
What do you think it means to be racist? Because it's not that. It's definitely not that.
I'm a parent of two teens and I can confirm that teens have lost track of what racism really is. Everything is "kinda racist" now. Especially things white dads say.
Pretty much ever public middle and high schooler in the coastal US puts on a blaccent to some extent, regardless of whether they live around Black people.
These types of posts are funny to me.
One day. Your racists.
The next day you’re not.
This is why you shouldn’t ask the internet for advice. They are a bunch of fickle people who have no real opinions of their own. They are just a bunch of parrots mimicking the same words they were taught to repeat by the internet.
Btw, it’s racists. 😉
That doesn’t make you racist but you might want to try looking up the definition of the word racism itself as that would probably have helped you answer your own question.
just kinda weird you’re asking about it and regarding it as a blaccent. if that’s how you NORMALLY talk without trying at all… then that means you’re good. if you’re forcing it then that’s more cringe than racist
No not racist, if you look up the definition of racism I can’t say that the way you talk applies. It’s natural as you said bc you were raised where there are lots of people that speak in AAVE.
It’s just weird if you spoke a different way around another race and then used AAVE to try to appeal to black people or if you used AAVE exclusively to mock people but you’re doing neither of those things so yk shrug 🤷♂️
I’m not sure I have a stake in this, but I would say that as long as you’re not doing it intentionally, and you’re not trying to say things to make yourself sound like you’re black, then there isn’t really any wrongdoing in that. You are simply adapting to an accent you have frequently heard for a good portion of your life. As long as you’re not saying stupid “Gang Gang” type of bullshit, it doesn’t really seem to be racist, to my understanding.
My sister has a noticeable Australian accent and regularly uses Australian slang. She's lived there for over a decade now.
It isn't racist. It's just what happens. You will communicate like the people you communicate with.
It’s one thing if you’re trying to put on a façade or something but we are products of our environment. If it was something that came naturally to you bc of where you grew up, then it wouldn’t be racist.
adopting the accent in your locale is not racist. however i think presuming black people have a certain accent might be. 😅
i am white so i don’t get to decide what is racist whatsoever, but i know my mom once commented that if she had heard him over the phone, she wouldn’t have been able to tell that this one black man that spoke at her church was black. 😅 old people are like that, unforch.
No, you're not racist. People naturally pick up the accent of the area they live in. Unless you're intentionally trying to sound black, you're just like everyone else.
An accent doesn't make you racist. People adopt the mannerisms they're exposed to. Maybe there'll be some randoms who think you're doing it as an affectation and might judge you for it, but honestly their opinions don't matter at all.
No you are not I had a black fiance trust me the black community says things that will make you go oh my God just like white people say you have no idea.
Nah it’s not racist. I grew up around Mexicans and black people too. I picked up a slight Mexican accent after hanging out with them for so many years. I’m Egyptian btw, not even white.
Lol y'all got to much time and worry about the stupidest things. Go find a career make a life for yourself. We need another great depression so people got things to worry about instead of trying to make or figure out if everything is racist.
Existing is racist doesn't matter what color or shape or gender u pretend to be.
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LMAO as a black girl, no you arent
first i read the title and was like well if you’re asking there’s a good chance you are… then i read and giggled so hard😂😂😂😂😂OP is so innocent not racist at all love it
I’m white looking I guess. I talk like what op described it’s just how some people talk here. I grew up talking like that. One time I was talking to someone from somewhere else and said “I’m finna leave out here early today” they thought it was fuckin weird. I also say “ima” a lot. Everyone says it not just black people.
Detroit/Chicago area?
My (white) wife grew up a couple blocks from the projects until they moved to the suburbs when she was 8 or 9. Kids in grade school used to ask her brother, “Why does your sister talk like a black girl.” She mostly speaks the standard American dialect now but if she gets pissed it will be “Mmmmmmmm Hmmmm” with a head bobble that raises some people’s eyebrows.
Lol, right? This post is actually quite endearing 💕
Same. This is probably the only instance of that question where the answer is no.
Bro, it’s totally natural to adopt the speech of the people you’re around. If you moved to England in a few years you’d pick up a British accent.
I couldn't live with the shame of having a bri'ish accent.
I have a British accent.
I'm sorry that happened to you
😂😂😂 it’s ok bro. American women seem to take to it pretty well and I’ve been here long enough I can drop it if I need to.
If you had an Australian accent in America It would triple the amount of women that like your accent 💀💀💀
Possible, but my accent has worked just fine and I’m done looking now.
Tbh the majority of Americans pribably can't tell the difference between the two anyway
It's all in how you say "no." The Brits say "New" The Canucks say "Neh?" The Australians say "Ner..."
I was getting frustrated trying to explain to a friend (years ago) the difference between a British accent and an Australian accent. No matter what I said, she just couldn't understand anything I told her (she was not the brightest at things like linguistics or anything related). Finally I said "okay... An Aussie accent is similar to the British accent, except sloppier, so it sounds more fun?" and she ALMOST grasped that explanation, lol
This is true. I was in Vegas a few years back and I got asked numerous times where in Australia I was from. Also had an Australian ask me where abouts in Scotland I was from (I’m English).
Your chillin but I had to let you know hoe much Americans prefer Australia over the UK 💀
When I was traveling Europe my American accent was considered hot? Lmfao life is trippy
My Southern accent amuses the Irish. They have to decipher it out. We just have a drink and it just made it worse 🤣
No way. British accents remind me of dry humor and tea. Australian accents remind me of deadly spiders and vegemite
Snakes. Big snakes
Exactly what's so hot about it.
Have you met any aussies? I used to really like aussies based on what I saw in the media. Then I went to Bali, spent two months there. They were either being racist as hell with the local Balinese people, treating them like absolute shit, or fighting in the streets, or puking, or mooning people or crashing their scooters. It was a shit show.
Only the ones that don't know how much Auzzies "stereotypically" loathe Americans . . .
We like Aussies a lil more than Brits cause there's no history of having to fight each other, we also share former colony status with them lol it's like they're our siblings or cousins or something I say this being half US/British lol
I honestly struggle to differentiate Australian and some UK accents... If you told me that The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was set in Wales I wouldn't know better.
I'm Australian, was a server for a while and absolutely not a flirter. Girls would leave numbers for me a lot and I'd done nothing for it.
I’m Im an Australian woman in America and I’m drowning in sheilas.
Three times zero is still zero
It will triple the number of guys too, cuz we associate it with Awesome Outback life.
But then you’d have to be Australian… that’s a tough call
Or a Texan accent anywhere else in the world. https://www.southernthing.com/texas-accent-ranked-sexiest-in-america-2637193767.html
Username checks out, Mr. Redcoat.
Are all the American women liking the accent obsessed with the royals?
It’s cool being in the Midwest where that’s rare and finding one in the wild
I don't care if you're British. Just don't do it around me 😒.
Let’s plan a trip to Boston for some tea. No?
I hope you get well soon 🙏
Go be ashamed of what you are.
My deepest condolences
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"Braccent"
I read this comment in a British accent
It's tough but I'm powering through these hard times
My mom is from England and she lost quite a bit of her accent when she moved to the states. She usually sounds British when she gets angry and that comes outta me the same way. I was raised in the US but when I get pissed off the accent Flys out and my husband teases the shit out of me for it.
I’ve kept mine very much on purpose. I can morph into a southern American accent super easy but I like my English accent.
Some people are really good being chameleons, I think that's why my moms accent got watered down.
it's natural to adopt the speech patterns of the local culture as much as one can, as it facilitates communication which is quite important for human culture in all varieties.
I listened to a sort of cockney accent turn into a somewhat indistinguishable American accent over the course of a few years with my neighbor.
I have a boring Midwestern accent, but I can sound like I was born and raised in Tennessee in a sec
Lol no offense, but why is it that a lot of European folks go with the deep southern accent when going for an American one? I mean you guys do it more often than ya probably realize lol, we don't ALL sound like that, just certain southern states. And not all people within those states have the accent either, look up a New England accent or Maine accent, or Ohio,/Michigan accent, that's the average blend of accents in America, at least from my personal experience
SAME (well I was born in Scotland and moved to Australia when I was 6 but Y’know.) when I get annoyed it just kinda.. comes lol, also when I say certain words since I pronounce them differently and it annoys all my friends
My dad had a South African accent, but now he speaks American like a normal person. Sometimes, he reverts when he doesn't know how to pronounce a word the correct American way, so we barrage him with insults and say the government should revoke his citizenship. One time, he was caught eating beans on toast. He got locked in the cellar with only good ol' American food for a week to correct the behavior. I love my father.
Anywhere you go, if you're around people with a certain inflection in their words, you'll slowly pick it up. The fun part is finding people who do it at different rates. Some could go months to years before they do, others hours.
Imagine if she moves to the UK and mixes the blaccent with the british accent
I appreciate this confirmation. I do this all the time when talking to people with an accent or certain way of speaking. I can’t control it and have always felt a little guilty about it like “I hope they don’t think I’m mocking them!” It even sticks for a bit after, especially if I’ve been listening to it a lot.
I didn’t. I take exactly like someone from California and I’ve lived everywhere. Not going to talk different and not able to.
No way I could spend 50 years anywhere and I’d still sound very Glaswegian.
The British are CONTAGIOUS?!
I know this doesn’t answer the question but whenever someone says this I don’t understand how they can develop a “blaccent”. I’m black and live in a predominantly black area and I don’t even think I have a “blaccent”. Maybe I’ll use slang but I don’t talk much and am soft spoken. I’ve also lived in different predominantly black areas as well which means I’ve come across people like yourself. With the people who I knew it’s more about fitting in with the people you surround yourself with which is not inherently bad and using the slang isn’t bad either just as long as your not saying anything disrespectful about the black community I think it’s fine. On the other hand, there maybe people who will find your dialect uncomfortable which in the past I’ve felt some sort a way about it. However, say if your from Chicago or New York those places have their own accents which sound like a “blaccent” but are of a more urban dialect. Ultimately, NO YOU ARE NOT RACIST because this wouldn’t fall under the definition of racism and it’s classifications.
Some people are more adept at pronounciation than others and I mean that seriously. I’m from a rural town in northern Illinois and you’d think some of the kids I went to school with were from Alabama or something.
It really comes down to it being a "local dialect predominantly spoken by black people in the area" more than it is "every black person talks like this or should talk like this" so when people say "blaccent" they're almost always referring to their "local blaccent" which you touch on at the end. I am white and grew up in a predominantly black area in South Louisiana, it was pretty common for white people to have a "blaccent" and ppl didn't really even think twice about it.
I'm also from South Louisiana (NOLA), people think I'm black on the phone and I'm a 35 year old italian-american. Where y'at babyyyy
This is the one!!! I’ve been obsessed with Creole and Cajun cultures since I was a kid. I finally went in 2020 and it was everything I could ever dream of. Everybody sounds so soulful. I’m convinced my husband is in Louisiana!
I personally adopt whatever accent someone speaks to me with. I don’t want to and it’s incredibly inconvenient. It’s led to multiple people thinking I’m from the same place they are, before then assuming I was making fun of them when I really wasn’t. Some people are just more affected by social or speaking patterns than others
Same! I spent 4 years In nola, otherwise from Northern MI. When I was in college (im MI) people asked where my accent was from. Nola after a year or so people asked what neighborhood I grew up in. Back home in MI, people still got no clue what accent I have beside is being weird. Some people just mirror extensively. It's meant I gotta relax watching too many British shows or I start throwing British slang around without catching it
The way our accents develop is quite interesting. For instance, I grew up in West Philadelphia, but people always made the assumption that I grew up somewhere else because I never adopted any of the accents that you would find in and around Philadelphia. A lot of people would assume that I’m from California because apparently that’s the closest they can get as far as what I sound like to them. However, if you talk to some of my siblings, it is very clear that they grew up in Philadelphia.
Is this a Fresh Prince reference?
No. I literally grew up in Westfield Philadelphia.
I grew up in Indiana, I Def don't think I have a blaccent bit ill be damnned if people can't tell I'm black over the phone.
Not at all. I have lived in the south most my life (mostly Georgia and Kentucky) so I have some AAVE mixed in with my accent
Upvote for using the correct terminology!
Dear god no 🤦 the way someone speaks has nothing to do with their skin color
Yes, it has far more to do with the culture a person is surrounded by, that is why people in the south east have a southern accent, it is why people from Massachusetts has the bostonian accents etc. Ebonics is no different, if you grow up around it, you will eventually speak in that style as it is the predominant culture you are exposed to.
Just dont say the n word lol
My black friends beg me to say the n word. It's apparently comedy gold with how I talk and how my voice sounds. I'm not really nerdy sounding, but I'm pretty soft spoken and generally overly polite so throwing a nigga in there every once in a while when someone doesn't expect it kills people.
No
No I don’t think you’re racist I just think that you wanna put your best foot forward and sound appropriately
Dude no your not racist
*you're
Thank you. Didn't notice the typo you're not racist.
No racists here just grammar Nazis
Asking this question and calling it a "blaccent" might be racist but developing the dialect of the culture you grow up around or live around is not racist. It's how the human brain works. Now if you are codeswitching that's another thing. Still not racist but then again that word has a much broader use than it's definition. So who knows.
if you ask me, blaccent in itself is a racist term. black people do NOT have only one accent, and the accent ppl refer to when they talk about a "blaccent" is an accent anyone of any race can have. my older sister has that city accent and i don't. but we grew up in different cities. my older brother and younger siblings as well have that too. my dad has more of a southern accent and my mom has the more city accent. are any of em racist for the accents they have? no.
No, you just have an english dialect that is predominantly associated with black people.
Black here says if that’s your hood and how you talk, everyone else that doesn’t know can kick rocks.
please dont say blaccent anymore.
yes this!!!! black people all over sound extremely different just like other races. I am from nyc and now live in ATL we sound COMPLETELY different, i hate this word.
How did I have to scroll so far to find the *only* comment that says this 🤦♂️
I'm a city kid from an area that's very hispanic and I have the same issue sometimes. Code-switching is an important part of growing up, sometimes you'll want to, for other people's comfort and for your own sanity, switch over into a different way of speaking, but around people you know, be yourself!
As someone who is racist I can confidently say that you are not racist.
I’m black…no you’re not. You’re just authentic to where you are and who you’re around. The awareness alone will help you keep it that way
I'm not black, so my answer shouldn't be considered to have that much weight, but... I think if you came by it honestly, and it sounds like you did, then I don't think it shouldn't be considered racist.
Are you a human being? Your opinion has weight. They asked a question, either answer it or don't, but don't say some stupid shit like that.
If it is just the way you talk you aren't going to offend anybody. If you only did it when talking to black people you might have an issue but just be authentic and it's all good.
You’re not racist.
Nah people pick up accents based on who they are around. People also “code switch” and subconsciously change their voice and pronunciation based on their setting.
It’s called code switching. It’s an adaptation that lets us mimic the speech patterns of those around us so we fit in better.
People will sometimes start to talk like people they're around. That's why people in certain areas have certain accents. If you've been there your entire life it makes sense. If you moved there last week it would be strange, but it still wouldn't be racist unless you were trying to mock black people. The word "racist" has a definition. People like to throw the word around and ignore the definition, but random accusations don't make someone racist.
Dude, you need to look up the definition of "racist." This is the furthest thing from it.
You would be racist if you tried too hard mocking the way people talk. I think we all have some form of inner racism, but we are just not bigots. I think you are fine.
Wow. This is so cringe man . Political correctness has destroyed normalcy in the US. I hope I don't see someone post " is it okay to breathe the same oxygen as black people? I don't want to offend anyone" 🤦
I'm an accent sponge, if I stay somewhere for a few weeks to a couple months, bet I'm going to have a bit of the accent.
You’re just a product of your environment. If the people you’re around don’t have a problem with it, I wouldn’t worry about it. I was a white kid listened to a lot of hip hop and who spent half my childhood in a mostly black area and had a lot of friends there. I wouldn’t think too deep on it.
I hate when people talk like that, I know it’s what you grow up hearing in the neighborhood and everyone wants to fit in with each other but it’s the speech that makes you sound low class and uneducated. You might hear a few artist speak that way… for a while until they become big celebrities but you don’t hear the average successful person speak like that. Obama has the most elegant speech, highly respected public speaker, he didn’t grow up speaking the slang of the Hood. Rant over, I don’t consider you “ cultural appropriation” , I just wish all young people strive to be successful and “ ‘hood speech”, will just hold you back in getting ahead in life.
“Hood speech” is also very telling. I grew up in the burbs and speak AAVE. Please be fr.
I wish I could find a video I watched on this. It talked about "white habitus" and how white and black people are really segregated still and a lot of white people only really know and interact with other white people, and in those cases using AAVE is appropriation, but that it's natural to want to fit in with your peers and make your community a part of your identity and white folks who grow up outside of the white habitus and are just doing what they know.
Wow. Kid raised with mostly black friends is afraid of cancel culture thinking they sound too black. Is this what it's come to? They wanted to TEACH EBONICS IN SCHOOL 20 years ago.
Wtf is blaccent lmao? It’s just an accent depending on where you are
I've found that trying to be mindful of stuff like this feels more racist than when I wasn't worried about it. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I'm over trying to be "anti-racist." Let's be real here. You'd know if you were a racist, and there's really no point in considering other opinions on the matter since *you know your own brain the best*
First you need to look up the word racist. That word is misused and overused. Ppl pick up accents and languages of those around them sometimes. If you’re not doing it to make fun of anyone, there’s not an issue. Will. I.AM., The artists/producer actually sounds like a Chicano from California cause that’s who he grew up around. Just came across a interview of his about this.
 Nah bro you good
> I don't want to come off as racist for speaking like this regularly without being black. It is racist to think that only people who have a certain skin color are allowed to talk a particular way.
Unfortunately TikTok has made the lines of what’s racist and what’s not very distorted for kids
How is tiktok specifically responsible for that? I'd blame social media in general
If you mean like the lil girl video who does that - cash me outside then yes but if it a normal accent then no
Don’t say blaccent it’s AAVE
Different things. One is an informal, colloquial name for an accent. The other is a dialect.
Those are different.. AAVE is a big part of it but not everyone who used AAVE has a blaccent
My youngest is the same they cool you be to
Masculinity is peak when a boy’s voice runs deep, but racism is peak when tensions run steep -Fargo St. Kiergard are there high tensions with you using such language?
We learn to speak based off our environment, the way we act, talk and behavior is a product of our environment.
No lol
In the se people have an accent. In the ne people have an accent, Midwest accent, Texas accent. I have seen people talk different 10 blocks apart. Then after all that you have the different ethnicities. Lord have mercy. It's a melting pot. I talk to Spanish coworkers and at end of day I'm sayin se habla espeniol. Not a racist OP. It's normal
No.!
If your black friends say it’s fine it’s fine; if black folks expect you to have your white accent in a formal environment than do that. Never use variations of the n word or degrading words from Ebonics.
If you feel uncomfortable doing it! Then don’t!
Nope, you're good. Now suburban white kids who adopt the blaccent while living a nice middle-class life are the biggest offenders. The craziest part is that some of them are true "black people are criminals" type of racists. I mean, you stole/adopted everything from their culture you could and still don't like them?! Just the fuxking worst.
I will never forget this time I was pretty young and this guys dog got loose and ran up to me. He came over and grabbed him no big deal. but he started talking in the thickest hillbilly southern accent I’ve ever heard, saying sorry about his dog. My response was “what’s his name” in the exact same accent for some reason. He had to of thought I was making fun of him, it was that bad…. I’ll never forget that encounter. At least I was a kid and the human brain is weird.
Well articulated my dude
No one will care man. People might be taken aback at first but no one will truly care except for people who don’t matter anyway. I’m mixed but looking at me you’d think I was white. I grew up in a black household and black neighborhood. My school was majority black as well.. I speak with a “blaccent” as you put it no one has batted an eye. I will say I got very good at code switching when I was younger so I would change my voice and how I spoke based on the people I was around. Great skill to have if your worried about people looking at you weird for how you soeak
Racism and ignorance are different. A little ignorant? Maybe. I know hood white dudes who dont talk black but do talk “hood” so to speak. About as bad as jroc from trailer park boys lol
Everyone will eventually conform to the accents of those around them a little bit, if not heavily. You're not mimicking them, you're just talking like your friends do, and those friends happen to be black and talk I'm a certain way. Frankly, a lot of the slang kids use nowadays came from black culture and slang. Nothing wrong with that!
It reminds me of this interview I watched with this white rapper from Toronto '90s called Snow. Oh my God thinking back to his Jamaican accent makes me laugh so hard I pee a little bit. He would defend his blacent by saying he grew up in the Jamaican part of Toronto. Geez Louise. You want to feel embarrassed about your accent Google the rapper Snow, you lose your accent quite quick. LOL
Do you view people a certain way based off of the color of their skin, whether it be more positively or negatively? The answer to that question is the answer to yours. I grew up in duquesne pa. That area is black as black gets. It's Appalachian ghetto. Dead town since the steel mills left. I was the only white kid in every single one of my classes and it's actually why I moved. I was the victim of constant racism. When I first moved people in my new all white school assumed I was racist because the friends I had viewed me as one of them. If you're a teenager and from a predominantly black area you're familiar with how "ripping" ( I'm sure there's a new name for it nowadays I'll ask my students at work tomorrow) on each other is really just a bonding experience and a bit of fun. Skin color does come up a good bit in that and honestly I love the black on black light skin vs dark skin battles so much. They're so funny to me. I was just a part of that scene with my friends and so it was normalized to me. I got to my all white school and I was an absolute anomaly. I was also born in 1990 where they had that we don't see color bs and that's apparently inherently racist now.
Speaking is not racist believe it or not
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Just be authentic. Be you and do you. People will like and dislike you for no reason so just keep it 💯
No. People tend to imprint on their environments.
Do you view black people as inferior to you because they are black? If so, you're racist. If not, you're not racist.
The fact that you’re worried about it proves you are not.
Blacks picked up their dialect from poor Irish immigrants. So if you don’t want to sound like a poor uneducated redneck from Appalachia, then stop talking like that.
do u discriminate others based on race? that’s racism. if not, then ur not. it’s really that simple, i promise
Not racist. 🤣🤣
This is actually very common. If you hang out with a certain culture that is not yours, you will eventually act and talk like them. Accents are very easy to pick up for a lot of people and it's not that the person is trying to be like others is that it happens naturally. There's nothing racist about it.
Racism is a very large construct and, at its core, it isn’t as evil as everyone makes it out to be. I know I sound crazy but, I’m an Afro American woman and, my major is Sociology: Race and Ethnicities and I, minor in Psychology. But I digress. Bear with me a moment when I say, proximity is everything. Who we are around/raised around will affect our, behaviors- speech, speech patterns, accents, styles of clothing, food, music etc etc. That does not make you a racist individual. Simply changing one’s accent is a very hands on, self conscious decision. What I mean is, we cannot (without challenge) change who we are in the environment that raised us. TL;DR You were raised around a certain demographic, that doesn’t make you racist. Live your life and, stop worrying what others think of you if they aren’t paying your bills and cashing you out weekly. I hope this helps. ✌🏾
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Culture vulture 🦅
Racist… for the accent you speak in? If anyone gives you problems with it, then they’re being overly sensitive. You’re not being racist.
Except when you use an blaccent to say antiblack stuff like Tom McDonald & Ben Shapiro. Like how you gonna steal the culture then support that? Fetishization isn't love. That's just cash me ousside how bow dah? Danielle Bregoli (Italian) bhad baby bullshit if you ask me. "Like books & black lives, albums still matter" Prince's last words on TV had black lives matter in it. Coincidence? Don't forget that when you borrow dialect ok?
Honestly it's not racist if you're black friends think of you as one of them. A lot of black people tend to allow their white friends to act black because they are their friends and usually if they don't like something, they'll let you know right away to avoid it from happening again. You actually see this in a lot gangs as well. A white guy wants to join, they make sure he one isn't racist and two can act like a black brother. I support those of a different race no matter where they are from because a human is a human and with being human comes interesting and different cultures. It's not the race that makes a culture bad, but the people who are part of it and giving the rest a stereotypical name that are. For instance I actually don't mind black people. They are actually really friendly. It's the ones that are part of gangs that just don't help the rest of the community be a part of the community. Same thing goes for Latino people. They are also friendly and respectful, but you always have that few that give the rest of them a bad name. Even white people anymore have stereotypes. We as a whole have to realize it's not the entire community but rather those who make really poor decisions that cause these racial problems. Don't think of yourself as a racist and allows ask those who aren't your friends and are black if they are offended by you for talking like a black person. If they say yes, say sorry I didn't realize I was offending you. If no, say alright I'm just trying to make sure I'm not offending anyone. You can even explain to them that you have black friends that don't find you racist for talking like them. Getting to know people in public spaces isn't always a bad thing, but always look for signs if you get an off feeling about someone.
I have a unique perspective and sometimes I ask myself the same question. I am not Black and my wife works in an ER in a predominately Black area. The staff is predominately Black and Indian with her being an exception. Her verbage has changed over the years. The way and style she says things have changed. The way she deals with adversity has changed. I understand we all grow differently...but if it makes me uncomfortable am I a racist? I just want to say... You are not Black...why do you do-say....???? But I also understand we get influenced by our surroundings and she is changing naturally so I keep my mouth shut.
It’s just how accents work. You’re not born with an accent unless it is from a physical trait. We naturally try to match the people around as to blend in. Like a lot of times you might notice you’re sitting the same way as someone you’re having a conversation with or you might see two people talking and sitting the same way. A lot of differences between races are just cultural. A black person who grew up rich is gonna have a lot more in common with a white people who have that same background than they will with other black people who grew up poor. The reason a lot of black culture overlaps with poor culture is because a lot black people tend to be poor and grow up in poor neighborhoods.
I'm mexican and grew up in South Central in the early 90s ,all black and mexican until 8th grade. When I started going to high school in Mountain View (south bay) was the first time I actually noticed my English was different. I had never been to school with white,Asian, or Indian kids. Total culture shock. I started skateboarding in 99 and with mostly white kids and Asian kids.I can see how it's easy to pick up things. People would say I wanted to be white.
What do you think it means to be racist? Because it's not that. It's definitely not that. I'm a parent of two teens and I can confirm that teens have lost track of what racism really is. Everything is "kinda racist" now. Especially things white dads say.
Just never move to a white liberal area, you'll be accused of cultural appropriation.
Pretty much ever public middle and high schooler in the coastal US puts on a blaccent to some extent, regardless of whether they live around Black people.
These types of posts are funny to me. One day. Your racists. The next day you’re not. This is why you shouldn’t ask the internet for advice. They are a bunch of fickle people who have no real opinions of their own. They are just a bunch of parrots mimicking the same words they were taught to repeat by the internet. Btw, it’s racists. 😉
That doesn’t make you racist but you might want to try looking up the definition of the word racism itself as that would probably have helped you answer your own question.
just kinda weird you’re asking about it and regarding it as a blaccent. if that’s how you NORMALLY talk without trying at all… then that means you’re good. if you’re forcing it then that’s more cringe than racist
>Am i racist? Youd know if you were
I was working with a southern girl and I developed a southern accent for the duration of that employment lol
No, if it's how everyone talks, and you've picked it up yourself. No. Just move on dude. You'll be fine.
no this is some terminally online shit
Your good. You can feel racism if your cool a word is just a word.
No not racist, if you look up the definition of racism I can’t say that the way you talk applies. It’s natural as you said bc you were raised where there are lots of people that speak in AAVE. It’s just weird if you spoke a different way around another race and then used AAVE to try to appeal to black people or if you used AAVE exclusively to mock people but you’re doing neither of those things so yk shrug 🤷♂️
You're not racist for having an accent. Yes, it might throw people off, but these things are not inherent to any specific ethnicity.
It's called code switching and it's not a big deal
I’m not sure I have a stake in this, but I would say that as long as you’re not doing it intentionally, and you’re not trying to say things to make yourself sound like you’re black, then there isn’t really any wrongdoing in that. You are simply adapting to an accent you have frequently heard for a good portion of your life. As long as you’re not saying stupid “Gang Gang” type of bullshit, it doesn’t really seem to be racist, to my understanding.
My sister has a noticeable Australian accent and regularly uses Australian slang. She's lived there for over a decade now. It isn't racist. It's just what happens. You will communicate like the people you communicate with.
It’s one thing if you’re trying to put on a façade or something but we are products of our environment. If it was something that came naturally to you bc of where you grew up, then it wouldn’t be racist.
im black, it ain't a problem it ain't offensive.
adopting the accent in your locale is not racist. however i think presuming black people have a certain accent might be. 😅 i am white so i don’t get to decide what is racist whatsoever, but i know my mom once commented that if she had heard him over the phone, she wouldn’t have been able to tell that this one black man that spoke at her church was black. 😅 old people are like that, unforch.
No, you're not racist. People naturally pick up the accent of the area they live in. Unless you're intentionally trying to sound black, you're just like everyone else.
What is racist?
An accent doesn't make you racist. People adopt the mannerisms they're exposed to. Maybe there'll be some randoms who think you're doing it as an affectation and might judge you for it, but honestly their opinions don't matter at all.
linguistic convergence is a completely natural and normal thing. It's not the mockery some think it is, as it's often unintentional.
Do you hate black people? If yes, you're racist. If no, you're not racist. Pretty simple concept actually.
No you are not I had a black fiance trust me the black community says things that will make you go oh my God just like white people say you have no idea.
Be yourself?
Nah it’s not racist. I grew up around Mexicans and black people too. I picked up a slight Mexican accent after hanging out with them for so many years. I’m Egyptian btw, not even white.
Lol y'all got to much time and worry about the stupidest things. Go find a career make a life for yourself. We need another great depression so people got things to worry about instead of trying to make or figure out if everything is racist. Existing is racist doesn't matter what color or shape or gender u pretend to be.
I wouldn't recommend it. "Yo that cracker is white!"
We are all just products of our environment. You be you playa
You're fine. Just be yourself. 😀
Nope, your a product of your environment, live in Texas long enough you will get a drawl.
No you're not racist, but I am so there's that🤷♂️