I'm Not A Racist, But..............Understanding Accents.

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Originally posted by towmater

Amd another thing that pisses me off interracial relationships there is nothing in this world more disgusting. Im not a raceist i hat every one equaly we as humans are so fucked ip

Actually that does make you racist.

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Originally posted by davey45

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Originally posted by towmater

Amd another thing that pisses me off interracial relationships there is nothing in this world more disgusting. Im not a raceist i hat every one equaly we as humans are so fucked ip
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Actually that does make you racist.

Indeed. If everyone's equal why would interracial relationships would be a problem ?
Some posts here feels like "I'm not racist but *insert racist sentence*".

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Originally posted by rainbowdemon

Had that problem with Cajuns when I was in South Carolina. Nice enough people, but I had no clue what they were trying to say sometimes!!

Sound like their talking with a mouth full of marbles, don't they?



I have a horrible time with accents, and often need my wife to act as interpreter when faced with them.

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Originally posted by Honda_X

and they're basically straight out of a fucking Monty Python movie with their thick ass British accents.

Gosh, How Bloody Dare you talk like that about British Accents. I will have you put in the tower and flogged for such remarks young man !

Hmm, yes, rather!

As my fellow Englishman(who has a jamaican patois name) inferred upon, our accents are not all monty python.

that annoys me about pretty much any 'British' accent done by anyone not British, sounds either like some regal gentry related to the queen, or like they're straight out of Mary Feckin Poppins.

The uk has a many plethora of different regional accents, and considering someone living less than 30 miles from me will speak and sound completely different. Along with accents, regional variations also occur with language. 'Yampy' being a term someone living 40 miles away won't know what the hell it means.

Anyhow, I do agree with the customer services outsource issue. It may seem I'm picking on Indians, however tht seems to be where nearly all call centres I phone are. It's really hard to understand what he's trying I say. Although I did have that same issue once with a Scottish guy too.

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Originally posted by Paddy!

Hmm, yes, rather!

As my fellow Englishman(who has a jamaican patois name) inferred upon, our accents are not all monty python.

that annoys me about pretty much any 'British' accent done by anyone not British, sounds either like some regal gentry related to the queen, or like they're straight out of Mary Feckin Poppins.

The uk has a many plethora of different regional accents, and considering someone living less than 30 miles from me will speak and sound completely different. Along with accents, regional variations also occur with language. 'Yampy' being a term someone living 40 miles away won't know what the hell it means.

Totally agree with you old chap and may i also say that Honda has never visited these shores and heard the various regional accents or he would not have made that comment.

I believe that the word "Yampy" is from the Black Country (Not racial, but an area of The Midlands previously rich in coal) and means Mad, Carzy or Wacky. I have recently been adopted by the locals as a Yam Yam due to my many weeks working in Tipton & Dudley.

I think a lot of Americans/Canadians think that all Brits sound like Monty Python the same way that a lot of Brits think all Americans sound like Hank Hill from King of the Hill.

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Originally posted by davey45

I think a lot of Americans/Canadians think that all Brits sound like Monty Python the same way that a lot of Brits think all Americans sound like Hank Hill from King of the Hill.

I personally donk think that about Americans at all, what reason do you have do you have to back up your statement "that a lot of Brits think all Americans sound like Hank Hill from King of the Hill" ? or are we yet again be typecast.

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Originally posted by Punnani

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I personally donk think that about Americans at all, what reason do you have do you have to back up your statement "that a lot of Brits think all Americans sound like Hank Hill from King of the Hill" ? or are we yet again be typecast.

I didn't say everyone thought that. You're skewing my post. What I meant was that a lot of people over here have no idea that there are different accents and dialects over there. The same goes for other parts of the world. Most people just assume when they see someone from another country on TV talking with a certain accent, that everyone who lives there talks that way. I'm pretty sure that not every person in Australia talks like the crocodile hunter. However, there are large groups of people who do think that.

Shit, my dad is from Cuba and speaks fluent Spanish but sometimes he has a hard time understanding the lingo that people from other Spanish speaking countries use.

Im from England and when i lived in America for a few years people could never get my order right! Once i had to ask for something 7 times before it was right and the worse thing was all americans thought i was a bloody aussie

so................you wouldnt bang that red head in the photo if she had a terrible accent...... you suck

I switched Siri to US version for a laugh, I had to put on an American accent for it to do ANYTHING!

Crap this is easy: 1st when a sentence starts with "i'm not a racist ...but" your screwed right off the bat.
2nd. i can't even understand people younger then 35 ish.
3rd.. anybody no matter what color there skin or religiouse beliefs is a racist to some extent. It's natural human function to be intolerent of others of a diff color or creed then your own... perfect example is it happens all the time in the wild amognst Gods creatures.
4th being human and of a higher learning capacity we can practice tolerance but not rid ourselves of racism.
5th i hate everybody equally, except for my family or if i ever call you bro or say whats up sister.

lesson over. lmfao

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Originally posted by Americanbulldog

3rd.. anybody no matter what color there skin or religiouse beliefs is a racist to some extent. It's natural human function to be intolerent of others of a diff color or creed then your own... perfect example is it happens all the time in the wild amognst Gods creatures.

Gotta disagree. Human is intolerant to things he doesn't know. So yes it can be other ethnic groups because we don't know all of them but that's not racism by nature, that's just fear of the unknown.
Also, in nature state we can't speak of racism because there is rarely different races but different species witch is different (well there are different races for lot of domestic animals but they're not really natural species anymore).

My point is these intolerances are due to fear so, as a human, you can either stay in ignorance of others and indeed tend to be racist or learn to know others and make your own conclusions based on your experience.

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Originally posted by omuh

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My point is these intolerances are due to fear so, as a human, you can either stay in ignorance of others and indeed tend to be racist or learn to know others and make your own conclusions based on your experience.

Intolerence due to fear? hmmm maybe self preservation of said species or just shear comfortable with like species. One things for shure, you can only get the true answer when you ask the God of your understaing, when your numbers up.

I suspect that racism, or intolerance of any kind is also do to our ability to hate. To some, hate is almost foreign, others are filled with it. Haters seem to be intolerant.

Animals, except in very higher species, do not seem to exhibit love/hate, but among those that do, there are also signs of prejudice toward members of other tribes/packs/whatev'... So I would not say that "racism" is uniquely human in nature.

Heck, if a male lion takes over a tribe, he will kill every male cub born that next year to kill off the genes of his predecessor. If that's not extreme prejudice, what is?

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Originally posted by bustMall

I suspect that racism, or intolerance of any kind is also do to our ability to hate. To some, hate is almost foreign, others are filled with it. Haters seem to be intolerant.

Animals, except in very higher species, do not seem to exhibit love/hate, but among those that do, there are also signs of prejudice toward members of other tribes/packs/whatev'... So I would not say that "racism" is uniquely human in nature.

Heck, if a male lion takes over a tribe, he will kill every male cub born that next year to kill off the genes of his predecessor. If that's not extreme prejudice, what is?

has anyone ever watched national geographic? especially on monkies or apes. -- like i said you will get the true answer when God punches your ticket - unless you happen to be sent down instead of up.

There's a difference between racism and competitiveness / survival. If a dominant lion (or whatever) kills other males it's to preserve his dominant title. A bit like a soccer team will beat another one to preserve or win a title.
Of course, that's the extreme version of it because that's how nature works ^^ But I don't see any racism in that. The lion beats others not because he don't like them for no reason but to keep his title (just like there is no racism in trying your best to beat another team in whatever competition).

And if you speak of self-preservation, in nature, there is a reason for it : you adapt / resist or you die. In humans societies nowadays you don't have this so it's just a fear and not a real danger you're reacting to if you're intolerant to something/someone in general.


About "haters", you'll often find that those kind of people are often afraid of something and thus hate for no valid reason as a reaction (of course you can hate someone for a specific valid reason but then, that's not racism again, but based on facts).

PS : Tried to call God one day but the line was busy

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Originally posted by omuh

There's a difference between racism and competitiveness.

PS : Tried to call God one day but the line was busy

A doesnt' racism keep a person or population down ? ergo a form of competivness... keep one down while the other remains succsesful.
B you don't call GOD. you pray for his wisdom & the power & strength to carry it out daily.
C treat others as you want to be treated ( dignity, respect & honesty ) & you will go far. unless your a theif.

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A doesnt' racism keep a person or population down ? ergo a form of competivness... keep one down while the other remains succsesful.

Yes, I agree with that. Now if we go further : why doing that ? Because the successful group fear to lose his status (exactly as machismo can be a reaction to the fear of being dominated [not in a sexual way ^^] by women).