{"id":108,"date":"2006-08-24T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2006-08-24T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:34:21","slug":"socially-unacceptable-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Socially Unacceptable Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned this to lots of people over the years, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not sure about the answer, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post it here.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s socially acceptable to mimic a French accent. If you attempt a Parisian accent while commenting on the wine, none of your peers will assume that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re anti-French, or acting in bad taste. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re corny.<\/p>\n

The same is true for a German accent. Or an Italian one.<\/p>\n

But try the same exercise with a Chinese or Japanese accent and see how fast the freezing looks come. You can perform a Gallic shrug or frown, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d better not squint your eyes to approximate an epicanthic fold.<\/p>\n

People doing European accents are A-OK. Those doing East-Asian ones are KKK.<\/p>\n

Why is this?<\/p>\n

I have a few theories, but only enough time to ask the question.<\/p>\n

Update: A Wilson’s Quarterly issue distills an article by a philosopher<\/font> asking similar questions<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned this to lots of people over the years, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not sure about the answer, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post it here. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s socially acceptable to mimic a French accent. If you attempt a Parisian accent while commenting on the wine, none of your peers will assume that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re anti-French, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-languagelit","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}