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Originally posted by Not Bob
Take this with a grain of salt (I am a member in good standing of the White Male Patriarchy, so I don't have any experience in being the recipient of discrimination), but I have noticed that accents that are outside the norm for a given area seem to generate all sorts of presumptions and assumptions about intelligence (or lack thereof) and character (or lack thereof).
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True, but when my bil and my husband were being schooled in the "you'll always be a second-class citizen" way of looking at the world, they didn't have an accent (at least not one that was different from those around them).
