My grandmother, who was very keen on manners, insisted that you couldn't be a gentleman without speaking like one. I'm sadly guilty of many biases highlighted in this presentation.
@@LowenKM Hi from north Wales uK. Thanks for your reply. I learnt a new word today, "ebonics". I like it. Not sure what you mean by "southern accents". Is that an American thing? It's kind of a thing here in Wales and england, they call it the north south divide.
@@davidowen4816 Hi from 'across the pond' in Arizona... ebonics is 'Murikin slang for American 'Black-lish', aka 'sounding Black', and a 'southern accent' refers to the characteristic 'drawl' found in states formerly belonging to the Confederacy,
'for realsies. Cowboys and Africans are pretty distinctly recognizeable simply by the way they speak alone... However, in places like Massachusetts, there's this VERY broad, yet distinct accent that MOST American's ACTUALLY speak, which is most well known as being the "Broad American Accent", but is actually spoken moreso in the densely populated areas(yes, cities, but there are quite some big/densely populated parts in the suburbs, lemme tell ya). And don't even get me started on the prefectures of Japan and their iconic kanto accent + general city-folk accent...I actually don't know much other than that the kanto accent is all "yee haw I'm japanese cowgirl who drops letters to sound "cool" even though its kinda just japanese-try-harding at being american" and the general accent is "oh I'm very calm and collected, or atleast, very logical" which, boy, english accents certainly share a lot in common with these accents in terms of the impressions they give...however having said that, it also depends on the context and whose doing the accent/accent impression/accent that sounds like an impression of another accent. P.S. I'm from across the pacific pond down under, don't ask how I know this, I spent a long time in the U.S. and only out of curiousity(ok and a bit of annoyance - which I bring up not reluctantly in the slightest I can assure you, I'm only semi-reluctantly phrasing myself here cause I don't want to waste more time...for you reading this as I can often go on tangents...yay I wasted more time of yours than I needed to ;-;) did some research on this myself... Still trying to decipher & find words for the very noticeably nasal Auzzi accent vs the more general, posh-esc kinda cockney-esc australian accents, sorta lacking in identity and charm in my honest opinion. Note that my accent is very messed up and I sometimes sound like an american/poshorbritish/monotone/non-australian/new-zealander anxious teen despite being 22.
As a native Spanish speaker college educated, living in the USA, I’ve come to realize that how you’re perceived really depends on the context and what you’re talking about: • In social situations, where status matters a lot, your accent can make a big difference. • In professional settings, it’s more about the quality of your ideas and how clearly you express them. I think of it as three intertwined layers that shape your perceived status and competence: • Accent • Quality of ideas • Articulation Each of these matters differently depending on the situation you’re in. But people first see your skin, then how you’re dressed, and only after that do they start listening to you. So how you speak is the only chance to bypass their bias.
Im a white Californian, I like to think of Californians having no accent, my NY relatives would disagree. But worked for years in dialysis, a unit that was 90% Filipino. I Had no problem understanding my coworkers at all, despite their thick tagalog accents. But at my desk I would field calls from throughout the hospital of hauty caucasians complaining that they were forced to call me bc they couldnt understand my Filipino coworkers. I am no linguist, but I think most US citizens are too lazy or biggoted to really listen to what is being said. They just cant get past the accent! Very true and informative!
I completely agree. (usually) it’s not that you can’t understand them, you heard the accent and now you don’t want to talk to them. I work in customer service and our tech dept is mostly overseas… the amount of customers that start foaming at the mouth about needing to be transferred simply bc our tech reps have accents is insane.
@@banksxbee Why do you think this is the case? Is it simply bigotry snd laziness as OP suggested? I mean it very well could be but I would like to hear your take.
are we really about to sit here and pretend that people with thick accents speaking broken fucking English isn’t impossible to understand? have you ever had to fucking talk to someone who can barely pronounce the words they are trying to articulate? Ever hear them jumble fucking words and sentences together? It’s fucking possible that some accents make English speech harder to understand. It’s not some fucking racist notion to admit that. Get your heads out of your asses.
I have a very slightly different point of view: exposure makes all the difference. It takes me a while to get the hang of accents. If I watch a lot of BritComs, I can understand that accent well, but when I move on to different entertainment, the ability to understand them fades. If I hang out frequently with my Egyptian friends, I understand them better than we've been too busy to get together. If I'm spending a lot of time with the local Hispanic culture, I understand them, but when I'm working on a big project in a different area, they become much harder to parse.
I’m from the coast of Mississippi and have been judged all my life for how I speak. I LOVE language, and traveling and meeting people from all over the world has given me so much value. I wish others would see how amazing it is to communicate with people globally. It makes me proud to be a human.
My friend from eastern europe came there in missisippi to work Even she studied English literature it was hard to understand that acent and she used to voice recording with her friends and I was shocked. I thought all ppl in America speaks the same acent and dialect but she made great great friends there. You guys are amazing ❤
We have a saying, in Czech that goes: Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem. (How many languages you know, that's how many times you are a human.) And I think it's absolutely true.
There's definitely some truth to that- but being HUMAN is a quality that is more expansive than just language and is unique with each individual. Learning different languages isn't an option for many children growing up, but imagination supersedes limitations of our circumstances.
@@RMCbreezy of course. Each language is a different way of thinking. My gf is Chinese and translating is very interesting when there are words/terms that can't be matched and, at best, guessed at to find the closest meaning. Language is a way to see a different mindset/ perspective of reality. Writing necessitates changing one's own point of view and getting into the minds of others, as best as possible. Being open minded and empathetic are crucial traits, along with a good imagination. Knowing different languages bypasses the need for imagination to understand different cultures. However, everyone that speaks two of more languages isn't guaranteed insight into different cultures. How interested they are in contemplating the crucial differences, meanings, and subtext, whether they spend any time at all even thinking about such- is all dependent on the individual. That is why blanket statements defining all individuals in one large particular group should always be tempered with "most, many, the majority etc... Generalizations are generally true- which means some % do not fit the characterization. Considering self reflection is far from a universal trait and empathy is employed by, maybe half the population of the human race, expecting insight from everyone in any group is a vain hope.
Non-native speaker here. Couple years ago when I wanted to share my music online I got bullied about my accent and ever since it's been challenging to be present on social media and show my art to others. It's always on my mind of how I talk and express myself, and I shy away whenever I get clumsy in my wording. I even got to the point where some people assumed I'm from States because I "burried" my true accent and replaced it with the American one. I am grateful that I moved to Berlin where I am exposed to so many cultures and ways how people talk. It has gotten easier to connect with people even if I mess up. Like yeah, I accidentally skipped an article somewhere, people still got my point and that's what matters by the end of the day. There's still a lot of work to do to fully feel comfortable with how I talk. This video will change a lot for the better from now on. So thank you! This video essay brought me to tears. For the first time I truly felt heard, understood, accepted and encouraged to just be myself and speak naturally
As a multilingual person, living in a country where English is the second language, I found myself introducing myself to others saying, "I feel like my most authentic self when I speak in English." This video makes me introspect on that. I think it has to do with how there are more words that I know of that are at my disposal, in English. Another part of me thinks that it could be related to how I learned to cope using poetry (which was in English). I say that, and yet, I think my words in my native language a different "rawness" to it, especially when I'm filled with powerful emotions. English has a way to articulate the depth, but my native language captures it in a way that English seems to struggle doing. I remember being told that I was as young as 4 when I gained fluency in English. I still spoke my native language in our house, but outside I would only speak in English. This was also, btw, solidified because you are praised if you speak in English in this country. At this point, I find myself somewhat rambling in this comment. I think I need more time to think about this. But Thank you for this video. This was a very thought-provoking one... and it helps (I won't elaborate further why). Cheers to you!
my parents are hispanic and had a bit of an accent when i was younger. when they enrolled me in kindergarten i remember having to take speech lessons despite speaking perfect english because they thought i’d have my parents’ accent. very interesting video!
I have a weird voice, and most of the time I'm always discriminated, mocked in social groups or neglected when someone new comes up. I can say from experience that how you sound is very important in how you are seen and accepted .
This is something that has definitely impacted me my entire life I was born with a cleft lip and palate which drastically changes the way that I talk I've had hundreds and hundreds of comments on my TH-cam videos making fun of me putting my voice down in various ways
yes because you are precieved as less intelligent and more incompetent. they don't mind openly leaving those comments because they know others are thinking the same thing.
My mom is a native brazilian Portuguese speaker and my dad is a native German speaker and we moved to the US when i was 2 years old. as a baby my parents spoke to me in German and English (bc we were in Austria) but my mom ofc had an accent when she spoke German and English. I feel like this caused me to grow up with less of a bias
"You humans instinctively favor people who talk like you" Here I am in late 2024, eating a piece of chocolate cake while watching a video on TH-cam, and having an AI call me out for being human :/
Some of us are drawn to what is different. We are tired of the same thing, especially when we feel we dont belong. AI could never hope to understand us fully, if they could then they'd be able to be more like us.
Okay, 24 hours and a lot of thinking later. After watching this last evening I left a comment remarking that I was sad because I was guilty of unfounded bias regarding the way people speak. "Sad", was far from the write word, devastated would be much more appropriate. When I said I was guilty, I should have said, very, very guilty. It's a sign of the quality of this gut punching and eye opening presentation that it could hit so hard. Cofiwch! Words are like weapons they wound sometimes. Wield them wisely.
Words aren't LIKE weapons, they ARE weapons. The sloppiness of so many people reflects the sloppiness of their minds, and is wholly the fault of the society in which we live- not the individual. While it is up to each person to better their thinking- that is clearly not the responsibility of a child to improve it's surroundings- when it is a passive inhabitant being molded into what it's going to be. By the time any of us are old enough to be self aware- our personalities are already set and our speech patterns reflective of the geography of where we live. Not fully passive, but nonconformity isn't an actual choice, and being separated from society for being different isn't an option many would choose.
@@dionmcgee5610 Which is why I love language and new words, and focus on my tone, I like the idea of turning my words and articulation into surgical instruments. Dissecting and resonating. Cutting down my enemies with my tongue has provoked violence from others simply by speaking a harsh truth or rebuttal to stupidity. I don't have time or patience for these foreigners who make everything in my country worse and more difficult and expect me to be compassionate.
@@dionmcgee5610 Hi there, thanks for your reply. I'm sorry if misled you. Words are NOt weapons, though they can easily be used as such. "Words are like weapons" is a line in a song by Cher, I liked the alliteration in it. I can't agree with "Sloppiness of mind being wholly the fault of the soceity in which we live - not the the individual". Though we clearly don't have free will, and thus cannot be guilty of anything, even sloppiness, we are all responsible for our actions. Lacking free will also negates choice and the conform/non-conform arguement. I do agree that our environment and upbringing play a part in our speech patterns, but like language, vocabulary and human conciousness, it's an ever evolving thing... and the game never ends.
@@davidowen4816 To be truthful, my first reaction is to blame the individual for being mentally sloppy. People can rise above it. But because something is easy for me doesn't make it as easy for others- and I backed away from that assertion. Besides, society shouldn't be dumbing down it's citizens intentionally- as ours clearly does. Not often I back away from a point- but I'm trying to be a decent person and it is an issue I do feel society is largely to blame for. . Not growing as an adult is clearly up to each individual, although not many have the inherent capacity to teach themselves how that is done.
@@dionmcgee5610 Gosh, you like the word sloppy! Is this truly sloppy seconds? Is sloppy a sloppy word? It's derogatory yet vague, somewhat soppy and a little bit ploppy. What about sloppy comprehension? No one is guilty or to blame for anything except for being human. Responsibility and accountability for our actions remains. Society includes all of us and we are not all the same thankfully, please don't tar us all with the same brush. We all need to work together to make it better, in spite of the conditions that test our resolve every day. The Blame Game is very easy for us with so many deserving targets to shoot down but it rarely achieves anything. To paraphrase a wise man "We must become the change we want to see in the world".
The UK is very very obvious in this regard. The number of accents by regions and class indicate everything about a person even on a tiny island like Britain
I will admit that I have some of these biases, but an experience with one non English speaker who I really like a lot made me more open to trying to understand people even when they have bad English even through text. This has translated into me being willing to put up with a lot more diverse speech patterns than I was willing to endure when I was young, back in my 20's or so, but I don't think everyone has transformative experiences like this. This gives me some interesting insight for sure.
Yo it’s so interesting when u learn lil shit like this, shit that we overlook, but then u realize like “damn, somehow this shit makes so much sense to me ” cause it would be boring to just plainly talk, but to perform your speech and tune your voice the way you want it is fun lol, it’s like singing every word, that’s pleasing af when u think about it. I’m glad life’s that way, it’s weird but makes sense at the same time. I might not make no sense at all right now lls …
We are Caucasian westerners now living in South Africa. I am learning isiZulu and our adopted son speaks his native language isiXhosa. Never would we suppress that. The more languages we know the better we will be.
People will always be more judgmental of someone with more of an accent because there’s a slight lag in communication processing. We live in times where people speak without thinking and where language is so often used to manipulate. So when there’s more of a lag in communication, it gives us more time to be critical. If we adopted the custom of speaking slowly, and with less affect, I believe a large majority of discrepancies would disappear.
I love foreign accents slangs hip Hop and diverse cultural lexicons. It is poetry to my ears, and access to a more well-rounded and nuanced understanding I love reading ancient books all over the world. And I love reading different translations of the same book as that gives a multifaceted perspective. Words are powerful don't dismiss any of them, by doing so you're only diminishing your power of understanding
I remember in college, in one of my math classes, our teacher was from France so he had a very thick French accent. The first day of class he was like “my accent sounds thick to you right now but as the course goes on, you’ll understand me just fine. He did not lie. I honestly forgot he had an accent.
Being from the Midwest US (Indiana), I have the most neutral possible accent in the country, so I’m able to generally fit in with any speakers in the states. It’s even neutral enough to fit in alongside people from other countries and continents, which is really interesting
Hoosier crew represent. I have had people identify me as a midwesterner but never a Hoosier specifically. So yes I agree it's the most neutral accent in the states. That's how we do in the 812.
i am so deeply grateful for this video that you presented, i am from different country and english second language, i have felt uncomfortable as being judged, not accepted and every thing else you mentioned in this video i have experienced. thank you for broadcasting it .
100% my life as an immigrant living 20 years in USA, and I'm not the worse. I know people from community who completely limit themselves and they stay in the corner most of their life .
This is so fascinating. Seriously.. I found a lot of things about myself. I realize I can be a bit unfair with my judgement when it comes to accents. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Bahasa telah membentuk perpecahan, dan fragmentasi kehidupan manusia. Hanya cinta tanpa motif yang menyatukan manusia. Saya dari Indonesia ikut menyimak.
I purposely change the way I speak in different dialects, accents and phrases because it’s fun and I feel like it gets me out of the mundane boring routine of life and small talk.
I grew up with three languages and two of those have many, many different accents, and I have a rather “strange” accent in every language I speak, regardless of how well. When I speak German, I’m sure it is hearable, that I’m from Austria, but not exactly from which region, because my accent fits to nowhere. Same with English, I’m not from an English speaking country, but my accent doesn’t really sound foreign, just strange… I could be an actor for a villain in a movie, I already sound like one
Where do we go from here? When we know it, we take it to heart and we practice becoming aware of the biases, because it is among others, a future that do not serve us anymore. We are missing out on competent people and potentially good friendships. Thanks for sharing 👍
@@kennethfung3618 that is your bias that they are "well seen" because as an asian you are generally a white supremacist and well see any european. since the matter is one of race and political climate, undoubtedly the next scapegoated accent will be chinese or "asian".
i have an Indian history teacher, i grew up listening to a lot of accents so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. she spoke with confidence and had a great vocabulary she explained everything so well and was really intelligent. unfortunately, my classmates weren't the same. they laughed as she spoke and never concentrated and spoke to her in such a disparaging way it's like they're speaking to a child. i asked them why they told me that they think it sounds silly and dumb and cant take anyone who spoke like that seriously
Speaking correctly is important in my job. However, i did find myself correcting others. I've learned, since then, dialects are regional to areas. And i no longer do that and I'm more successful in my job now. I think it's knowledge that helps. And traveling without a lot of passive income, has opened my eyes to others and their own issues.
I grew up with Filipino, Native American and white kids. I'm white. Both the Filipino and Native kids talked with an accent and I gravitated to them, not the kids who sounded like me. They were more popular and I think that plays a big role.
For some unknown reason [TV, it's absolutely using TV as a babysitter in the 70s], I don't have my own native accent. It really put a dent in my ability to relate to my school peers.
This is very true whenever people say something funny and I say I'm alive instead of I'm dead, I also say I'm strong instead of I'm weak, and so on ... Languages are spells. So you know how to spell
As a Filipino, during my travels I often get comments from Westerners asking me why I speak such good English. Let me tell you about the 48 years we were colonized by America... 😀 It's also funny that we have to take IELTS and TOEFL before studying or working abroad when English has been fed to many of us here since birth.
I remember when I first moved to the city after so many years of living in the woods and stuff I would be picked on in middle school for having a distinct country accent when I spoke, they would always ask if I was from the south. I've never even been down south other than Pennsylvania
I don't know why this video was recommended to me, but I haven't seen this channel before. After listening to this one video, I have to say viewer discretion is advised. Between the ominous tone and carefully chosen language, this is clearly not meant to educate but to manipulate both your feelings and your perspective. Whoever made this wants to stir up trouble.
The tactic is used everyday in those ads lying about how dangerous immigrants are, despite the fact that illegal immigrants break fewer laws than native born residents and are far less dangerous than other groups of people We get the ominous music in those ads perpetuating a falsehood purely for political reasons. To a gullible public eager to believe the lies. Does this video use those same tactics? Of course it does. Trouble against bigotry. Did you listen to the content? Which of the arguments would you take issue with and disagree? Courtrooms ruling unfavorably not because of the facts, but because of an individuals foreign accent. Ever wonder why so many innocent people are in jail? well this is one of the reasons. If, by chance, you weren't aware of all the innocent people we have locked up in this country and maybe don't believe that it's true- the proof is in DNA testing ferreting out criminals years and decades after their crimes have long been "settled", exonerating the innocent, often posthumously, as the wrongly accused did not survive incarceration or was given the death penalty- one very good argument for ending that regressive tactic.
My mother was adamant that her children spoke perfect English. She understood how much one's speech determines how one is perceived and considered incorrect word usage 'low class.' I'm a professional journalist who follows AP style to the letter in all my writing and can't help but judge as lacking writers who don't get this right. Back to speech, I often wonder how teachers could instruct young children in Australia to pronounce 'no' 'noy' when it's obviously incorrect English...everywhere else but where they grew up. It's true we're all judged by how we speak as much as what we say, so it pays to learn to speak correctly (grammar and word usage, never using phrases like 'we had went' or 'I seen it.') Making the effort to speak and write correctly can make a big difference in career success, which I don't think is a bad thing. There is such a thing as correct and incorrect grammar and word usage; those who do the work to get it right deserve the accolades they earn from this difficult endeavor.
Went to France as a Quebec french speaker. Laughed at me when I said "chandail" (shirt). Told me the proper french way to say shirt was "tee-sherte" (t-shirt with a french accent) oh hahaha silly english person how amusing. I was raised in a french environment since I was a toddler but everyone in France refused to speak to me in french and brushed me aside as a "stupid anglophone"
A friend of mine had parents from 2 spots in England with very different and intense accents, and their family moved to the east coast U.S. when he was like 11, then utah in his high school years, so his accent baffles linguists and dialectologists lmao 😂
I was raised in Brooklyn NY , came from PR and I had to adapt very quickly to the NY slang, if not everyone knew I was an outsider, and it was very easy to get into a fight, 50 yrs later I slowly got rid of my slang because my family moved out of NY and I didn't need my slang anymore,it made me look bad😂😂
I tend to unconsciously mimic accents, which I noticed while spending time with Latino communities from different countries like Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico.
The way, this video started with "This is an artificially aware production" felt so uncomfortable for me, I was tempted to click away. But I am glad I didn't
this is AI gibberish with no actual citing, please look into papers that are backed by research, as AI can source from anything which messes up factual data .
in a scale from: color, language, accent all 3 do not tell you a nationality stating so using any of them is inference, assumption. expecting others to pick up that ommission when tests are done in multiple choice format to exclude fact is a slight of hand. even tbe act of saying one is italian is an inferrence of whether you mean by geneology or by legal citizenship.
I thought this was actually going to be a good video on how the way you speak portrays your personality and how to mitigate possible narcissistic language or other things. Instead, it's giving me a rundown of how I chose my friends at a young age based on accent and that fact that I would discrimate as such is a bad thing so now the author wants to tell me how bad of a person I am for liking people that talk like me instead of people that don't. I also appreciate the publisher of this videos attempt to distance themselves from this opinion by using an AI voice.
before even beggining this video, yes everyone cares just a little bit about how they appear in physical form, but a very small majority dgaf 110% of the time... not just when they are by themselves. Some people do not "act" to fit into society or a social circle... truly rare these days
Logos is power. The real tragedy of real life is that society values and prefers conformism over competence and genius. My old friend Norbert Wiener, father of Cybernetics, understood it better than most.
Fascinating and so thought provoking... Just in the same way I wish I was musical.. I so wish I was bilingual.. and yet, sometimes, I know I judge someone upon how they sound when speaking.. as I said, thought provoking.. I will try to do better...
This content of yours has a powerful message. ❤ Thank you for sharing! I also like the calming sounds while you narrate and I wonder if you were the one who painted some of those pics that was showed in the vid. ❤
Even if everything in this video it's true, in my opinion, one shouldn't focus to much on that. We know the power of self-fulfilling prophecy. Even if your accents is a bit different do not stop trying your best! ;)
4:07 You humans Instinctively favor pople who talk like you, .. by the shivers flowing through my spine right into my Neuronal Networks core! Listen machine! "You don't know mee..." 🥰😍😘
11:32 Yes, but have you figured out where the human weights are? if so, how do you start their realignment process? "You don't know mee..." TMI: Trilingual, no tribe really takes me in for real. The only one i have to make myself. 😈
this video is drawn out with some of the most uninteresting filler anectodes. i suggest getting better at the actual script writing. communication is about what you actually say, not just the way you do. some segments genuinely sound AI generated.
I'm sorry that I don't press like icon on every video , Usually I binge listen with screen off. Much likes and love to listeners and artificially aware ❤
10:56 childrens biases are influenced in a large way by what the adults they look up to say & how they say it. Noticing slight tone differences and understanding what they mean. Along with why they say what they say. Children will pick up the opinions of their parents or peers untill they get away from them long enough to establish their own independent opinions.🔥
If we all can just put down the phones and shut off the TV. Get away from electronics. Find a quiet place of peace. And meditate beyond your physical sight. If it's meant for you, the path will begin unravel. We need to work together one this. Im open to help anyone, only takes a couple minutes to tell the true intentions of an individual. One is all - all is One. Jess
There's a Jamaican guy at my workplace who hides his accent because people supposedly have trouble understanding him. I was surprised when he told me because I really didn't hear it at first, and also kinda felt bad. It's a shame because the Jamaican accent is delightful and fun. On the diversity angle, it's a shame that most people only support diversity at an abstract level, and simply fall back to their instincts in their daily life as they choose to confide in this or that person who looks or sounds like them. I understand it makes communication easier and efficient. But you miss out on perspectives, values, learning experiences and fun by always sticking to that path of least resistance.
I like the video overall. Two things, the audio editing feels a bit too uncomfortable, and it feels like both facts and the points they help show are repeated twice or more
I do cause I have experienced it. Did a research years back on my own about credibility of non native speakers, if you do as well by typing “study on accent credibility” you can find it’s a true bias of the human mind. It sucks and because of that I had to give up on the YT channel I had created since it was information based. I was receiving not only comments mocking the way I spoke, which by the way was really great English, but also the points I was making despite visual proof and a data driven take. While in the meantime other channels about the same topic that used clearly less accurate information but spoke pristine English received only praise and anything they said was believed at face value.
Agree. Basic media literacy. Regardless of whether you personally relate to what the video is saying, the fact that there are no reliable sources should raise some flags.
I get depressed noting the many biases in speech. All of the social cues that tell you to speak out, flown over someone's head or, all of the social cues meant to silence someone. Complete Honesty in a society would bring down the world, we need lies and stories to spark the imagination/save the nerves of those who just can't handle the full truth.
The AI voice is male baritone with an accent of an American who attended university; therefore, the content is reliable.
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I'm a little embarrassed at how long it took me to recognize this irony. Came to the comments to find this specifically.
American baritone so therefore i can forgive its glaring bias
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My grandmother, who was very keen on manners, insisted that you couldn't be a gentleman without speaking like one. I'm sadly guilty of many biases highlighted in this presentation.
Oh, 'fer sure... and we can just look at how differently folks can react to things like 'ebonics', or _southern_ accents?!
@@LowenKM Hi from north Wales uK. Thanks for your reply. I learnt a new word today, "ebonics". I like it. Not sure what you mean by "southern accents". Is that an American thing? It's kind of a thing here in Wales and england, they call it the north south divide.
@@davidowen4816 Hi from 'across the pond' in Arizona... ebonics is 'Murikin slang for American 'Black-lish', aka 'sounding Black', and a 'southern accent' refers to the characteristic 'drawl' found in states formerly belonging to the Confederacy,
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'for realsies. Cowboys and Africans are pretty distinctly recognizeable simply by the way they speak alone... However, in places like Massachusetts, there's this VERY broad, yet distinct accent that MOST American's ACTUALLY speak, which is most well known as being the "Broad American Accent", but is actually spoken moreso in the densely populated areas(yes, cities, but there are quite some big/densely populated parts in the suburbs, lemme tell ya).
And don't even get me started on the prefectures of Japan and their iconic kanto accent + general city-folk accent...I actually don't know much other than that the kanto accent is all "yee haw I'm japanese cowgirl who drops letters to sound "cool" even though its kinda just japanese-try-harding at being american" and the general accent is "oh I'm very calm and collected, or atleast, very logical" which, boy, english accents certainly share a lot in common with these accents in terms of the impressions they give...however having said that, it also depends on the context and whose doing the accent/accent impression/accent that sounds like an impression of another accent.
P.S. I'm from across the pacific pond down under, don't ask how I know this, I spent a long time in the U.S. and only out of curiousity(ok and a bit of annoyance - which I bring up not reluctantly in the slightest I can assure you, I'm only semi-reluctantly phrasing myself here cause I don't want to waste more time...for you reading this as I can often go on tangents...yay I wasted more time of yours than I needed to ;-;) did some research on this myself... Still trying to decipher & find words for the very noticeably nasal Auzzi accent vs the more general, posh-esc kinda cockney-esc australian accents, sorta lacking in identity and charm in my honest opinion. Note that my accent is very messed up and I sometimes sound like an american/poshorbritish/monotone/non-australian/new-zealander anxious teen despite being 22.
As a native Spanish speaker college educated, living in the USA, I’ve come to realize that how you’re perceived really depends on the context and what you’re talking about:
• In social situations, where status matters a lot, your accent can make a big difference.
• In professional settings, it’s more about the quality of your ideas and how clearly you express them.
I think of it as three intertwined layers that shape your perceived status and competence:
• Accent
• Quality of ideas
• Articulation
Each of these matters differently depending on the situation you’re in.
But people first see your skin, then how you’re dressed, and only after that do they start listening to you. So how you speak is the only chance to bypass their bias.
Well pointed 👏 ! This understanding is more powerful than dozen PhD if you look it in a usa -
What u wear shouldn’t matter but u can’t wear a tank top with gym shorts to a wedding.
The best comment I've ever read!
@ Thanks Matthew!
@@deflategate1297 haha great point!. that’s exactly why men in uniform captivate women!
Im a white Californian, I like to think of Californians having no accent, my NY relatives would disagree. But worked for years in dialysis, a unit that was 90% Filipino. I Had no problem understanding my coworkers at all, despite their thick tagalog accents. But at my desk I would field calls from throughout the hospital of hauty caucasians complaining that
they were forced to call me bc they couldnt understand my Filipino coworkers. I am no linguist, but I think most US citizens are too lazy or biggoted to really listen to what is being said. They just cant get past the accent! Very true and informative!
Same here. For some reason I could understand foreign accents. East Coast here.
I completely agree. (usually) it’s not that you can’t understand them, you heard the accent and now you don’t want to talk to them. I work in customer service and our tech dept is mostly overseas… the amount of customers that start foaming at the mouth about needing to be transferred simply bc our tech reps have accents is insane.
@@banksxbee Why do you think this is the case? Is it simply bigotry snd laziness as OP suggested? I mean it very well could be but I would like to hear your take.
are we really about to sit here and pretend that people with thick accents speaking broken fucking English isn’t impossible to understand?
have you ever had to fucking talk to someone who can barely pronounce the words they are trying to articulate? Ever hear them jumble fucking words and sentences together?
It’s fucking possible that some accents make English speech harder to understand. It’s not some fucking racist notion to admit that. Get your heads out of your asses.
I have a very slightly different point of view: exposure makes all the difference.
It takes me a while to get the hang of accents. If I watch a lot of BritComs, I can understand that accent well, but when I move on to different entertainment, the ability to understand them fades. If I hang out frequently with my Egyptian friends, I understand them better than we've been too busy to get together. If I'm spending a lot of time with the local Hispanic culture, I understand them, but when I'm working on a big project in a different area, they become much harder to parse.
I’m from the coast of Mississippi and have been judged all my life for how I speak. I LOVE language, and traveling and meeting people from all over the world has given me so much value. I wish others would see how amazing it is to communicate with people globally. It makes me proud to be a human.
My friend from eastern europe came there in missisippi to work
Even she studied English literature it was hard to understand that acent and she used to voice recording with her friends and I was shocked. I thought all ppl in America speaks the same acent and dialect but she made great great friends there. You guys are amazing ❤
Sp how do i find u on fb im jntrested and from Canada
U can delete ur comment saying once we've commented
How's that sound ???
We have a saying, in Czech that goes: Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem.
(How many languages you know, that's how many times you are a human.)
And I think it's absolutely true.
There's definitely some truth to that- but being HUMAN is a quality that is more expansive than just language and is unique with each individual.
Learning different languages isn't an option for many children growing up, but imagination supersedes limitations of our circumstances.
Yeaaa if you find anyone less because they don’t know more languages. They not the problem the bias in your head is.
@@Jaa__17reading too much into it. There are ways of thinking that come with certain languages
@@RMCbreezy of course. Each language is a different way of thinking. My gf is Chinese and translating is very interesting when there are words/terms that can't be matched and, at best, guessed at to find the closest meaning.
Language is a way to see a different mindset/ perspective of reality.
Writing necessitates changing one's own point of view and getting into the minds of others, as best as possible. Being open minded and empathetic are crucial traits, along with a good imagination.
Knowing different languages bypasses the need for imagination to understand different cultures.
However, everyone that speaks two of more languages isn't guaranteed insight into different cultures. How interested they are in contemplating the crucial differences, meanings, and subtext, whether they spend any time at all even thinking about such- is all dependent on the individual.
That is why blanket statements defining all individuals in one large particular group should always be tempered with "most, many, the majority etc...
Generalizations are generally true- which means some % do not fit the characterization.
Considering self reflection is far from a universal trait and empathy is employed by, maybe half the population of the human race, expecting insight from everyone in any group is a vain hope.
@@dionmcgee5610 you saying that only half of humans employ empathy destroys your point. You're part of the problem here bud
speaking slowly as you do makes it very easy to listen and comprehend
You shouldn’t announce that.
It's an AI voice 😅
It's actually harder to listen to. Tbh. I'd prefer if there weren't so many pauses in the information
Non-native speaker here. Couple years ago when I wanted to share my music online I got bullied about my accent and ever since it's been challenging to be present on social media and show my art to others. It's always on my mind of how I talk and express myself, and I shy away whenever I get clumsy in my wording. I even got to the point where some people assumed I'm from States because I "burried" my true accent and replaced it with the American one.
I am grateful that I moved to Berlin where I am exposed to so many cultures and ways how people talk. It has gotten easier to connect with people even if I mess up. Like yeah, I accidentally skipped an article somewhere, people still got my point and that's what matters by the end of the day.
There's still a lot of work to do to fully feel comfortable with how I talk. This video will change a lot for the better from now on. So thank you! This video essay brought me to tears. For the first time I truly felt heard, understood, accepted and encouraged to just be myself and speak naturally
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As a multilingual person, living in a country where English is the second language, I found myself introducing myself to others saying, "I feel like my most authentic self when I speak in English."
This video makes me introspect on that. I think it has to do with how there are more words that I know of that are at my disposal, in English. Another part of me thinks that it could be related to how I learned to cope using poetry (which was in English).
I say that, and yet, I think my words in my native language a different "rawness" to it, especially when I'm filled with powerful emotions. English has a way to articulate the depth, but my native language captures it in a way that English seems to struggle doing.
I remember being told that I was as young as 4 when I gained fluency in English. I still spoke my native language in our house, but outside I would only speak in English. This was also, btw, solidified because you are praised if you speak in English in this country.
At this point, I find myself somewhat rambling in this comment. I think I need more time to think about this. But Thank you for this video.
This was a very thought-provoking one... and it helps (I won't elaborate further why). Cheers to you!
Are you Filipino?
my parents are hispanic and had a bit of an accent when i was younger. when they enrolled me in kindergarten i remember having to take speech lessons despite speaking perfect english because they thought i’d have my parents’ accent. very interesting video!
I have a weird voice, and most of the time I'm always discriminated, mocked in social groups or neglected when someone new comes up. I can say from experience that how you sound is very important in how you are seen and accepted .
“Having a “weird voice.’” May also be impacting your self esteem and how confident you say thing s
A shame we are all a product of life. People should not be so judgemental.
This is something that has definitely impacted me my entire life I was born with a cleft lip and palate which drastically changes the way that I talk I've had hundreds and hundreds of comments on my TH-cam videos making fun of me putting my voice down in various ways
yes because you are precieved as less intelligent and more incompetent. they don't mind openly leaving those comments because they know others are thinking the same thing.
Ignore the ignorant. I'm sure they would be surprised.....they are not perfect. We are not meant to all be alike.
My mom is a native brazilian Portuguese speaker and my dad is a native German speaker and we moved to the US when i was 2 years old. as a baby my parents spoke to me in German and English (bc we were in Austria) but my mom ofc had an accent when she spoke German and English. I feel like this caused me to grow up with less of a bias
well ig i have a bias when it comes to american accents. i automatically assume the person is stupid and doesn’t know geography
even tho i have a an american accent lolll
"You humans instinctively favor people who talk like you"
Here I am in late 2024, eating a piece of chocolate cake while watching a video on TH-cam, and having an AI call me out for being human :/
;)
Lol it’s okay.
Some of us are drawn to what is different. We are tired of the same thing, especially when we feel we dont belong.
AI could never hope to understand us fully, if they could then they'd be able to be more like us.
@@tahsina.c okay so I don’t feel like talking about it
Okay, 24 hours and a lot of thinking later. After watching this last evening I left a comment remarking that I was sad because I was guilty of unfounded bias regarding the way people speak. "Sad", was far from the write word, devastated would be much more appropriate. When I said I was guilty, I should have said, very, very guilty. It's a sign of the quality of this gut punching and eye opening presentation that it could hit so hard. Cofiwch! Words are like weapons they wound sometimes. Wield them wisely.
Words aren't LIKE weapons, they ARE weapons.
The sloppiness of so many people reflects the sloppiness of their minds, and is wholly the fault of the society in which we live- not the individual.
While it is up to each person to better their thinking- that is clearly not the responsibility of a child to improve it's surroundings- when it is a passive inhabitant being molded into what it's going to be.
By the time any of us are old enough to be self aware- our personalities are already set and our speech patterns reflective of the geography of where we live.
Not fully passive, but nonconformity isn't an actual choice, and being separated from society for being different isn't an option many would choose.
@@dionmcgee5610 Which is why I love language and new words, and focus on my tone, I like the idea of turning my words and articulation into surgical instruments. Dissecting and resonating. Cutting down my enemies with my tongue has provoked violence from others simply by speaking a harsh truth or rebuttal to stupidity. I don't have time or patience for these foreigners who make everything in my country worse and more difficult and expect me to be compassionate.
@@dionmcgee5610 Hi there, thanks for your reply. I'm sorry if misled you. Words are NOt weapons, though they can easily be used as such. "Words are like weapons" is a line in a song by Cher, I liked the alliteration in it.
I can't agree with "Sloppiness of mind being wholly the fault of the soceity in which we live - not the the individual". Though we clearly don't have free will, and thus cannot be guilty of anything, even sloppiness, we are all responsible for our actions. Lacking free will also negates choice and the conform/non-conform arguement.
I do agree that our environment and upbringing play a part in our speech patterns, but like language, vocabulary and human conciousness, it's an ever evolving thing... and the game never ends.
@@davidowen4816 To be truthful, my first reaction is to blame the individual for being mentally sloppy. People can rise above it. But because something is easy for me doesn't make it as easy for others- and I backed away from that assertion. Besides, society shouldn't be dumbing down it's citizens intentionally- as ours clearly does.
Not often I back away from a point- but I'm trying to be a decent person and it is an issue I do feel society is largely to blame for.
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Not growing as an adult is clearly up to each individual, although not many have the inherent capacity to teach themselves how that is done.
@@dionmcgee5610 Gosh, you like the word sloppy! Is this truly sloppy seconds? Is sloppy a sloppy word? It's derogatory yet vague, somewhat soppy and a little bit ploppy. What about sloppy comprehension? No one is guilty or to blame for anything except for being human. Responsibility and accountability for our actions remains. Society includes all of us and we are not all the same thankfully, please don't tar us all with the same brush. We all need to work together to make it better, in spite of the conditions that test our resolve every day. The Blame Game is very easy for us with so many deserving targets to shoot down but it rarely achieves anything. To paraphrase a wise man "We must become the change we want to see in the world".
The UK is very very obvious in this regard. The number of accents by regions and class indicate everything about a person even on a tiny island like Britain
I will admit that I have some of these biases, but an experience with one non English speaker who I really like a lot made me more open to trying to understand people even when they have bad English even through text. This has translated into me being willing to put up with a lot more diverse speech patterns than I was willing to endure when I was young, back in my 20's or so, but I don't think everyone has transformative experiences like this. This gives me some interesting insight for sure.
Yo it’s so interesting when u learn lil shit like this, shit that we overlook, but then u realize like “damn, somehow this shit makes so much sense to me ” cause it would be boring to just plainly talk, but to perform your speech and tune your voice the way you want it is fun lol, it’s like singing every word, that’s pleasing af when u think about it. I’m glad life’s that way, it’s weird but makes sense at the same time. I might not make no sense at all right now lls …
I like the “and here is the kicker” it makes me pay more attention.
It’s an insignia of this channel
love it too
Seeing how they seem to use the exact same language like that in every video and release them constantly, I’m pretty sure this is actually just ai
We are Caucasian westerners now living in South Africa. I am learning isiZulu and our adopted son speaks his native language isiXhosa. Never would we suppress that. The more languages we know the better we will be.
People will always be more judgmental of someone with more of an accent because there’s a slight lag in communication processing.
We live in times where people speak without thinking and where language is so often used to manipulate. So when there’s more of a lag in communication, it gives us more time to be critical.
If we adopted the custom of speaking slowly, and with less affect, I believe a large majority of discrepancies would disappear.
I love foreign accents slangs hip Hop and diverse cultural lexicons. It is poetry to my ears, and access to a more well-rounded and nuanced understanding I love reading ancient books all over the world. And I love reading different translations of the same book as that gives a multifaceted perspective. Words are powerful don't dismiss any of them, by doing so you're only diminishing your power of understanding
I remember in college, in one of my math classes, our teacher was from France so he had a very thick French accent. The first day of class he was like “my accent sounds thick to you right now but as the course goes on, you’ll understand me just fine. He did not lie. I honestly forgot he had an accent.
Being from the Midwest US (Indiana), I have the most neutral possible accent in the country, so I’m able to generally fit in with any speakers in the states. It’s even neutral enough to fit in alongside people from other countries and continents, which is really interesting
Hoosier crew represent. I have had people identify me as a midwesterner but never a Hoosier specifically. So yes I agree it's the most neutral accent in the states. That's how we do in the 812.
i am so deeply grateful for this video that you presented, i am from different country and english second language, i have felt uncomfortable as being judged, not accepted and every thing else you mentioned in this video i have experienced. thank you for broadcasting it .
Where are you from? I’m from Mexico
Have seen the judgemental.....if tgey use understanding....it will help them.
I find language diluted with manipulation as a means of communication; doubt constantly clouds some people’s minds so honesty isn’t always apparent
100% my life as an immigrant living 20 years in USA, and I'm not the worse. I know people from community who completely limit themselves and they stay in the corner most of their life .
This is so fascinating. Seriously.. I found a lot of things about myself. I realize I can be a bit unfair with my judgement when it comes to accents. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Bahasa telah membentuk perpecahan, dan fragmentasi kehidupan manusia. Hanya cinta tanpa motif yang menyatukan manusia. Saya dari Indonesia ikut menyimak.
People need to be less judgemental and more accepting.
Betul, tapi tanpa bahasa kita tidak bisa menyampaikan cinta tanpa motif dan isi hati dan pikiran untuk menyatukan manusia.
I purposely change the way I speak in different dialects, accents and phrases because it’s fun and I feel like it gets me out of the mundane boring routine of life and small talk.
There a list of sources somewhere for this?
I grew up with three languages and two of those have many, many different accents, and I have a rather “strange” accent in every language I speak, regardless of how well.
When I speak German, I’m sure it is hearable, that I’m from Austria, but not exactly from which region, because my accent fits to nowhere. Same with English, I’m not from an English speaking country, but my accent doesn’t really sound foreign, just strange… I could be an actor for a villain in a movie, I already sound like one
Where do we go from here?
When we know it, we take it to heart and we practice becoming aware of the biases, because it is among others, a future that do not serve us anymore. We are missing out on competent people and potentially good friendships.
Thanks for sharing 👍
The villain in an American movie always have Russian and middle east accent.
Upper crusty british accent does it for me. like Ebeneezer scrooge.
Califonia berkely accent makes me feel the same too
Or German at times 😅
You know its weird because slavics are actually well seen, which cant be said for middle easterners.
@@kennethfung3618 that is your bias that they are "well seen" because as an asian you are generally a white supremacist and well see any european. since the matter is one of race and political climate, undoubtedly the next scapegoated accent will be chinese or "asian".
@@stefanz9485Yeah, the first Die Hard movie comes to mind. 😅
Intention is paramount
Overthinking the downfall
I, as a Midwestern, have encountered where my voice was made fun of and considered having "no accent."
Same for me! Kinda cool to be able to travel in stealth mode without anyone IDing your home state.
Monotone with a hint of sarcasm
Is "How You Say It" the only source for this piece? Or are there other sources to be cited?
Rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper.. loving it..
i have an Indian history teacher, i grew up listening to a lot of accents so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. she spoke with confidence and had a great vocabulary she explained everything so well and was really intelligent. unfortunately, my classmates weren't the same. they laughed as she spoke and never concentrated and spoke to her in such a disparaging way it's like they're speaking to a child. i asked them why they told me that they think it sounds silly and dumb and cant take anyone who spoke like that seriously
Speaking correctly is important in my job. However, i did find myself correcting others. I've learned, since then, dialects are regional to areas. And i no longer do that and I'm more successful in my job now. I think it's knowledge that helps. And traveling without a lot of passive income, has opened my eyes to others and their own issues.
I grew up with Filipino, Native American and white kids. I'm white. Both the Filipino and Native kids talked with an accent and I gravitated to them, not the kids who sounded like me. They were more popular and I think that plays a big role.
This is probably my favorite video on TH-cam. Ever.
For some unknown reason [TV, it's absolutely using TV as a babysitter in the 70s], I don't have my own native accent. It really put a dent in my ability to relate to my school peers.
I have become a master at code switcher after 13 years of English and 10 of Portuguese.
I've been on a streak since I discovered your channel great timing!
Can I just say how beautiful the video design is? the music, the background, even font makes it so aesthetic ✨
Thank you! We're thrilled to hear that you like it!
This is very true whenever people say something funny and I say I'm alive instead of I'm dead, I also say I'm strong instead of I'm weak, and so on ... Languages are spells. So you know how to spell
As a Filipino, during my travels I often get comments from Westerners asking me why I speak such good English. Let me tell you about the 48 years we were colonized by America... 😀
It's also funny that we have to take IELTS and TOEFL before studying or working abroad when English has been fed to many of us here since birth.
I remember when I first moved to the city after so many years of living in the woods and stuff I would be picked on in middle school for having a distinct country accent when I spoke, they would always ask if I was from the south. I've never even been down south other than Pennsylvania
I don't know why this video was recommended to me, but I haven't seen this channel before. After listening to this one video, I have to say viewer discretion is advised. Between the ominous tone and carefully chosen language, this is clearly not meant to educate but to manipulate both your feelings and your perspective. Whoever made this wants to stir up trouble.
The tactic is used everyday in those ads lying about how dangerous immigrants are, despite the fact that illegal immigrants break fewer laws than native born residents and are far less dangerous than other groups of people
We get the ominous music in those ads perpetuating a falsehood purely for political reasons. To a gullible public eager to believe the lies.
Does this video use those same tactics? Of course it does. Trouble against bigotry. Did you listen to the content? Which of the arguments would you take issue with and disagree?
Courtrooms ruling unfavorably not because of the facts, but because of an individuals foreign accent. Ever wonder why so many innocent people are in jail? well this is one of the reasons.
If, by chance, you weren't aware of all the innocent people we have locked up in this country and maybe don't believe that it's true- the proof is in DNA testing ferreting out criminals years and decades after their crimes have long been "settled", exonerating the innocent, often posthumously, as the wrongly accused did not survive incarceration or was given the death penalty- one very good argument for ending that regressive tactic.
@dionmcgee5610 point is they are illegal so they have no right to be here, let alone committing crimes. We have enough problems
My mother was adamant that her children spoke perfect English. She understood how much one's speech determines how one is perceived and considered incorrect word usage 'low class.'
I'm a professional journalist who follows AP style to the letter in all my writing and can't help but judge as lacking writers who don't get this right.
Back to speech, I often wonder how teachers could instruct young children in Australia to pronounce 'no' 'noy' when it's obviously incorrect English...everywhere else but where they grew up. It's true we're all judged by how we speak as much as what we say, so it pays to learn to speak correctly (grammar and word usage, never using phrases like 'we had went' or 'I seen it.') Making the effort to speak and write correctly can make a big difference in career success, which I don't think is a bad thing. There is such a thing as correct and incorrect grammar and word usage; those who do the work to get it right deserve the accolades they earn from this difficult endeavor.
Thanks now I understand why everyone hates how I talk
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y'all are killing me with your book recommendations I'm becoming a hoarder over here
Those book recommendations are a ploy stealth way to give you an ad
@@konvikted_fellin8253 this is a channel run by a book seller?
The world runs off ads
Speaking of speech, would you please make a video about stuttering? Thx!
social hierarchy is as inverted as everything else, which is why i speak like an irate pirate.
Nigerian here! Yessso!!! Our pidgin to the world!
As someone with an accent I love this video lol!!!
Excellent subject.
Thank you
Wow i enjoyed every minute of the video
Went to France as a Quebec french speaker. Laughed at me when I said "chandail" (shirt). Told me the proper french way to say shirt was "tee-sherte" (t-shirt with a french accent) oh hahaha silly english person how amusing. I was raised in a french environment since I was a toddler but everyone in France refused to speak to me in french and brushed me aside as a "stupid anglophone"
i love this channel so much and the ever thought-provoking topics it discusses in such a digestible and universal way!
I love how the information is presented.. its akin to the older Zeitgeist Docu series
All that he said, be it American with a beautiful baritone, is all true..AI or not! Well explained and to the point❤❤❤❤❤
You have a very soothing voice
A friend of mine had parents from 2 spots in England with very different and intense accents, and their family moved to the east coast U.S. when he was like 11, then utah in his high school years, so his accent baffles linguists and dialectologists lmao 😂
This is very good. Kudos.
I was raised in Brooklyn NY , came from PR and I had to adapt very quickly to the NY slang, if not everyone knew I was an outsider, and it was very easy to get into a fight, 50 yrs later I slowly got rid of my slang because my family moved out of NY and I didn't need my slang anymore,it made me look bad😂😂
I tend to unconsciously mimic accents, which I noticed while spending time with Latino communities from different countries like Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico.
The way, this video started with "This is an artificially aware production" felt so uncomfortable for me, I was tempted to click away. But I am glad I didn't
this is AI gibberish with no actual citing, please look into papers that are backed by research, as AI can source from anything which messes up factual data .
This is so intriguing.... and scary!
I've got a speech impediment and this hit hard!
I don’t have kids yet, but I plan on watching Muzy and voice overs of Ms. Rachel in other languages right along with them 🥰🥰
in a scale from:
color, language, accent
all 3 do not tell you a nationality
stating so using any of them is inference, assumption.
expecting others to pick up that ommission when tests are done in multiple choice format to exclude fact is a slight of hand.
even tbe act of saying one is italian is an inferrence of whether you mean by geneology or by legal citizenship.
I thought this was actually going to be a good video on how the way you speak portrays your personality and how to mitigate possible narcissistic language or other things. Instead, it's giving me a rundown of how I chose my friends at a young age based on accent and that fact that I would discrimate as such is a bad thing so now the author wants to tell me how bad of a person I am for liking people that talk like me instead of people that don't. I also appreciate the publisher of this videos attempt to distance themselves from this opinion by using an AI voice.
Very interesting video!
Loved the video recommendation.
Faded asf watching this, intelligent youtuber, sub!
i listened to the whole thing not for the content but rather simply for how calming his voice is
before even beggining this video, yes everyone cares just a little bit about how they appear in physical form, but a very small majority dgaf 110% of the time... not just when they are by themselves. Some people do not "act" to fit into society or a social circle... truly rare these days
Logos is power. The real tragedy of real life is that society values and prefers conformism over competence and genius. My old friend Norbert Wiener, father of Cybernetics, understood it better than most.
Fascinating and so thought provoking... Just in the same way I wish I was musical.. I so wish I was bilingual.. and yet, sometimes, I know I judge someone upon how they sound when speaking.. as I said, thought provoking.. I will try to do better...
This content of yours has a powerful message. ❤ Thank you for sharing! I also like the calming sounds while you narrate and I wonder if you were the one who painted some of those pics that was showed in the vid. ❤
thanks for not putting an obnoxious background song, I was able to concentrate better on the message because of it.
Even if everything in this video it's true, in my opinion, one shouldn't focus to much on that. We know the power of self-fulfilling prophecy. Even if your accents is a bit different do not stop trying your best! ;)
4:07 You humans Instinctively favor pople who talk like you, .. by the shivers flowing through my spine right into my Neuronal Networks core!
Listen machine!
"You don't know mee..."
🥰😍😘
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11:32 Yes, but have you figured out where the human weights are?
if so, how do you start their realignment process?
"You don't know mee..."
TMI:
Trilingual, no tribe really takes me in for real. The only one i have to make myself. 😈
I enjoyed this
15 seconds in, it doesn't matter what i say, when I say it, or how i say it !!!! I am and will always be (1/2 of the equation)
this video is drawn out with some of the most uninteresting filler anectodes. i suggest getting better at the actual script writing. communication is about what you actually say, not just the way you do. some segments genuinely sound AI generated.
It is 100% AI generated, consume with discretion.
I love how active u are
I'm sorry that I don't press like icon on every video , Usually I binge listen with screen off. Much likes and love to listeners and artificially aware ❤
Very inspiring I have tons of stories but I just rather say thank you for the insight 😢
10:56 childrens biases are influenced in a large way by what the adults they look up to say & how they say it. Noticing slight tone differences and understanding what they mean. Along with why they say what they say. Children will pick up the opinions of their parents or peers untill they get away from them long enough to establish their own independent opinions.🔥
Is this why we’re all anxious? We don’t know what to trust or how to act because we’re letting go of these self conscious biases?
If we all can just put down the phones and shut off the TV. Get away from electronics. Find a quiet place of peace. And meditate beyond your physical sight. If it's meant for you, the path will begin unravel. We need to work together one this. Im open to help anyone, only takes a couple minutes to tell the true intentions of an individual.
One is all - all is One.
Jess
There's a Jamaican guy at my workplace who hides his accent because people supposedly have trouble understanding him. I was surprised when he told me because I really didn't hear it at first, and also kinda felt bad. It's a shame because the Jamaican accent is delightful and fun.
On the diversity angle, it's a shame that most people only support diversity at an abstract level, and simply fall back to their instincts in their daily life as they choose to confide in this or that person who looks or sounds like them. I understand it makes communication easier and efficient. But you miss out on perspectives, values, learning experiences and fun by always sticking to that path of least resistance.
I like the video overall. Two things, the audio editing feels a bit too uncomfortable, and it feels like both facts and the points they help show are repeated twice or more
do we just trust this AI when it says researchers and provides no sources??? no sir
American accent sounding from Harvard University. Yes. We can absolutely trust this artificial gentleman
I do cause I have experienced it. Did a research years back on my own about credibility of non native speakers, if you do as well by typing “study on accent credibility” you can find it’s a true bias of the human mind.
It sucks and because of that I had to give up on the YT channel I had created since it was information based.
I was receiving not only comments mocking the way I spoke, which by the way was really great English, but also the points I was making despite visual proof and a data driven take.
While in the meantime other channels about the same topic that used clearly less accurate information but spoke pristine English received only praise and anything they said was believed at face value.
Agree. Basic media literacy. Regardless of whether you personally relate to what the video is saying, the fact that there are no reliable sources should raise some flags.
Accents can show us what can be expected.
I believe this is what made Carl Jung such an extraordinary psychoanalyst.
I get depressed noting the many biases in speech. All of the social cues that tell you to speak out, flown over someone's head or, all of the social cues meant to silence someone. Complete Honesty in a society would bring down the world, we need lies and stories to spark the imagination/save the nerves of those who just can't handle the full truth.