(September 27, 2018 at 10:53 pm)Dancefortwo Wrote:(September 27, 2018 at 10:24 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote: Mine is a Carolina girl twang. As soon as people hear the grits flying, in their minds my IQ drops several dozen points. I was born in South Carolina, raised in North Carolina, have a B.A. from a respected (and expensive) private college and have a respectable IQ. Graduated cum laude and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Kappa Nu Sigma, Psi Chi and Delta Psi Omega. I was the department's official tutor for one of the two most difficult psychology courses. But the accent is never going away, so I suspect I will always be viewed as "less than."
Of course all that pales by comparison to how much my value as a human being (in the bible-belt) dropped in the minds of the people in Tinytown upon revealing my atheism.
I don't have an accent because I'm from California. So there!
I have a fairly innocuous Aussie accent. Not the type from Kath and Kim (which you probably dudn't get in the 'States). Mine's more of the Aussie stereotype.
It gets noticed and commented on by the Kiwis around me...
...until the learn what's good for them.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
