“In the beginning there were only – I’ll say 1,200 – of our people escaped The Trail of Tears removal. After being cut off a handful of times I angrily wagged my finger in the air and shouted a few choice expletives. Race wasn’t something that occurred to me on the red-clay playgrounds of Charlotte. At what point is accommodation a sacrifice? But regardless of how far along a company is, virtually every organization has valuable customer data assets that could be put to better and more active use. You drive down the street and everybody is wide open blowing their horns and don’t know nobody and don’t want to know nobody and don’t care about nobody. Any Southerner with a drawl or a twang in the voice is subject to derision, particularly when we venture outside our region. But that’s beside the point. Folks hear the accent and the conclusions come quickly, even if they’re unspoken: We’re stupid. Yoyin Familusi, Customer Management Strategist About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features © 2021 Google LLC With a powerful combination of academic research, medical education, and compassionate patient care, the University of Chicago has been at the forefront of medicine since 1927. News, email and search are just the beginning. He’s made it his mission to preserve the languages and dialects of the South. Undoubtedly our move to Chicago would be a comparable step toward our own greatness. Among the disillusioned is Emily Arbour. We need to really hear one another. My teacher introduced me to the class, told them I was from Charlotte. They’re devoted to him and their work, it’s immediately clear. So atmospheric CO 2 levels have oscillated10 between about 180 and 300 parts per million over the last 400,000 years, never eclipsing 300, and suddenly in the last century the level has vaulted up to 400 (it’s currently at 403ppm). Atlanta is not alone in growing estranged from its dialect. Today we have 14,000, and only 200 speak the language,” says Jerry Wolfe, Beloved Man of the Eastern Cherokee. Northerners who don’t like Southern speech basically don’t like Southerners, and their speech is an emblem of that. That’s why the work of N.C. State professor Walt Wolfram matters so much. You might have heard about the #NuggsforCarter campaign that dominated Twitter in 2017, which involved a teenager asking Wendy’s how many retweets it would take for him to win a year of free chicken nuggets. Wolfram grew up the son of two German immigrants – and as a result was no stranger to linguistic discrimination as he grew up. Just like any other part of me, it is the sum of my experiences. If we spoke Cherokee he would paddle us.” Dozens of stories just like this can be heard throughout the film – speaking their own language was banned in the schoolyard. Studies conducted by Stephany B. Dunstan as well as by Lauren Hall-Lew and Nola Stephens found that students from the region had to deal with a number of different reactions to their accents throughout their college experience. Word Count: 1322 “My Last Duchess” is probably Browning’s most popular and most anthologized poem. In sticking with the idea of closing with a strong idea, sometimes it helps to add a video to bring a sense of variety or change of pace in your presentation. The whole world shut down that day. THE BITTER SOUTHERNER ©2021 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. In some ways, he’s become both a linguist and the missionary that he set out to become in the ’60s, but instead of spreading the good word, he’s spreading the goodness of speech. Steven Gerrard thinks Rangers have a "wonderful opportunity" to progress further in the Europa League as they are "in a fantastic place". Currently his students are being dispatched all around the country – Detroit, Atlanta and everywhere in between – conducting sociolinguistic studies within African-American communities. It was the move to the state that led him to the second love of his life: the state of North Carolina itself. Because I simply don’t sound the part. Do you have what it takes? The official unemployment rate has been at or below 4 percent for more than a year. His work is focused on debunking the misperceptions we make based on dialect – by educating and spreading their knowledge through the documentaries they make, by speaking publicly and developing museum and cultural center installations to help spread awareness. When our parents told us we were moving to the suburbs of Chicago we could barely contain our excitement. Not only would we be city girls soon – but the thought of the endless snow fights and raillery that awaited us filled us with thrills. Canada's trusted source for breaking news, local news, weird news, national and global politics, events, and more from the world's top media outlets. A number of his students would spend a portion of the next week at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, conducting interviews and spreading the awareness of their work, and rallying folks to share their stories of being misunderstood or judged for how they sound. “We’re so tolerant of language prejudice – people can manifest other kinds of prejudice by picking on the language. His students are recording political figures as well as rap competitions. North Carolinians have been coached into really treasuring their state – the vegetation, the cultural groups. Wolfram rose to the statute’s defense against much opposition, using findings from his endless research in the area to support it, citing the complex patterns and vocabulary of the dialects he and his fellow researchers had documented.