January 20, 2005
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So, let me tell you a little story about my new englander classmates
(this just perpetuates the steroetype that new englanders are
racist). My med chem professor is Indian (as are all chemistry
professors it seems)…and like most immigrant Indians, he speaks with
an Indian accent. Like most indians, his grammar is perfect, he
just has that charming lilt to his speech. And it’s not even that
heavy, believe me, i have heard much worse. So every semester, we
do teach evaulations…and people can write comments on the bottom if
they want. Apparently, someone had written “learn English before
you decide to become a teacher”. YES THEY DID…that’s what they
wrote. HOW RUDE is that?! Luckily the prof didn’t take it
that seriously and told the entire class that someone wrote that and
then added….”that person must’ve not studied well and did badly, so
he/she was mad…but all i have to say is that i’ve been speaking
english since before any of you were born!!”example number two. Our virology & Antiinfectives professor
is german. ANd maybe i’m a little bit immune to the german accent
because everyone at my lab was german, but even so, her accent was not
strong at all. And again, grammar is perfect…just the little
lilt. A row of WOMAN (grown, married women who went back to
school for pharmacy….NOT young teenage girls) sitting behind me spent the entire
two hours making fun of her accent. And i KNOW they are new
englanders because of their own accents. So germans tend to
prounouce their “th” as an “s” or “z” and they sort of pronounce
their “r” as kind of a “w” sound. So everytime she said “mouth
organism”, the women would CRACK UP…and they would all go” mouse
aw-ganism”…and then they’d turn to each other and ask “what did she
say? what did she say?” EVERY SINGLE TIME. Then they would
miss what she would say next because they were too busy making fun of
her accent. And then they’d have to ask “what did she say?” for real.SO ANNOYING. SOOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING…i have NO tolerance for
racism. NONE. i can NOT stand it when people make fun of
immigrants’ accents. it is SO RUDE. why don’t you go to
their country and learn their language perfectly?although for some reason, i don’t find making fun of accents within
American English offensive….probably because i can do a pretty good
Boston one now….that is one horrible accent. I used to think it
sounded like “pahk the cah in the hah-vahd yahd”…like almost english
sounding “ah”…but it is NOT. it is SOOO not. All the “a”
are actually like the “a” in “yak”…but as extreme as you can make
that short “a” sound. so it becomes “pack the caaaa in the
haaa-vaaad yad”. i can do it for you if you like when i get back! but that doesn’t
count…because that’s just a difference in speech pattern…it’s not
due the fact that our original language pronouces certain letters
differently.Anyway. SO RUDE.
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Comments (3)
hahahahaah…ur crack me up in ur last paragraph! hehehe
but yea…I hate racists…they really are, in essence, naive and closed minded…racism is never-ending *sigh*
yeah totally totally rude….at least the Swiss here are a little more gracious when I apologize for my bad German because of my English accent…they actually go, “Don’t worry about it…take your time.” Racist people like that should be shipped off to a foreign country and learn how it feels to be a minority, struggle with communication and language, and also the customs. Then they’ll come back with a more sensitive mind. Those people need a real a$$-whooping reality check that they aren’t the only people existent and the USA isn’t the only country in the world. Sorry, I just can’t tolerate racism either, especially after living in Europe for over a year…you should show them some alpha-girl attitude and tell them to shut up and put them in their place…ugh…makes me mad…
This kind of goes against your story, but it happened about an hour after i read your story and i felt bad so i’m letting you in on it.
I was sitting at my desk at work, and this Chinese lady whose office is right next door was talking to someone from another lab about borrowing pipettes (or soemthing). The guy was saying to the lady that he wanted to borrow some and that he would return as many as he borrowed when he got his shipment in. And so the lady asks how many he wants, and she says “Do you want the whole bag? You can just take the whole bag and give me back a whole bag when you get yours.” The part that made me laugh was how she wasn’t enunciating her “whole” and was saying “ho”.. and so she kept saying ho-bag. “You want a ho-bag?”
Sorry. does that make me a racist?!