Accents
Published Sunday 20 Jul 2008 2:23pm |Tags: Accents, Nationalitys, Discremination
It was an average day online. I was wandering through the servers, happily fragging the day away, not a care in a world. I dropped into a lobby and happily said my custamary ''Hello'', I was greeted in turn by a disgusted sounding Amercian saying "Oh my god! Ah you British?"
This sadly has happened to me far to often. It would seem that foerigners cannot differenate between accents, and accordingly abuse people for cultures they don't belong to, and get even angrier when they deny that they are not infact, an English speaking Icelander.
Now I may be exagerating a bit there, I have not yet been mistaken for a citezen of Iceland. But for too long have I been called a 'Bloody Brit' or a 'Fu*#in Aussie'. Now it's not fair that people discreminate by the way people talk, in the same way people discreminate by the colour of peoples skin.
So please people, do not tease people by the way they talk, and stick up for people if you hear them being pestered online. After all, eventually it may be you that needs defending.
~Divine
COMMENTS (15)
When people say theyre from America I usually pretend Ive never heard of it. hehe.
lol nice geno!
Oh yeah, someone I became 'friends' with online (not in that way ;b) said we should talk on some messeging thing some time, but then I pointed out that it was the middle of the night over there (somewhere in America I think) when I was usually able to get online in the evening ... come to think of it, would only have been early morning wouldn't it? ha my bad ;D















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