And I also want to introduce my thoughts about the accents, too. This is a kind of self confession, and I hope to listen to more personal feelings on the accent.

Frankly speaking, I also had prejudice about African-american accent. I thought it is too strong and never sophisticated. (I also thought Black French accent was terrible and noisy. These images made a bad synergy ensemble.)

This may be due to the images we accepted from the movies. You know, in movies, black guyz had often been described as gangsters or hip-hop boys. This seems recently being changed and as more as we get positive images from the movies and news, our stereotype must be changed along.

More I wonder about the existence of the golden rule of valuation in our brain, more I am for the relative valuation by the culture and environment. It’s all about image. Simply assume that English royal family has used the actual African-American accent. Who would have a bad conclusion about the accent?

We may need a scientific research to get the conclusion. But even if the research would reveal that there is actually a golden rule for the preference of accent, we still can not disregard the images we create.

I have been thinking that there is big differences between while’s English and Black’s English. When I was in US Arny as a KASUSA soldier, I didn’t understand black’s English.
Of course that’s why my English was not good.

Through your article I realized that my thought was wrong and not reasonable.

Thank you and I’d like to meet you if you are OK.
I’m studying in Finland, I will go back to Korea next month. Also your English materials are good to learn English futhermore for free !

p.s I registered here to get a membership, but I didn’t get password from here by an e-mail. How can I get that? Let me know the way.

Bye

As far as I understand, many of undereducated, untrained, and under-middle class african american use different english compared with the well-educated (those who had a chanse to go to college) african american, who use almost same english that I heard from white (cause I’m native korean, I can’t distinguish minor accent).

I’m not sure why they are using different words, different expression, and different accent, however one thing I know is many american judge someone by english he uses. Therefore I originally thought that many african american are trying to say like being white specifically in their wor, and it makes them looking professional, well-educated and polite people.