I am american, but my parents are frm mexico. My first language was spanish. I have an accent, and i like to talk with it, make fun accents.. yeah sometimes i try to talk like what is considered standard american accent, but i don't like it, it's just not me. My english is completely understandable even with the accent, but i feel that people discriminate me because i don't conform to the standard accent. Here's what i get:
-companies think i'm mexican who doesn't speak english and dn't want to hire me
-even if i'm hired, they all treat me like i'm different
-in hospitals, eye doctor or whatever, even hispanics working there will listen to me, and just because i don't talk with standard english accent they start speaking spanish. They fail to understand my spanish is even worse than my english..what a bunch of dummies.
-Foreign people( japanese/chinese) will see me as not american, and thereofre they don't want to be friends with me because i'm supposedly not american.
2006-09-12
06:06:33
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