How You Say It
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1619 , Segment 1
How You Say It, US Democracy, WAVES
Episode: How You Say It, US Democracy, WAVES
- Jun 11, 2021 8:00 pm
- 36:43 mins
We can’t help but gravitate to people who sound like us—meaning people who share our accent. Discriminating against someone who has a foreign accent is one of the few forms of discrimination that is still socially acceptable in America. University of Chicago psychology professor Katherine Kinzler discusses this in her book "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do and What It Says About You." (Originally aired: August 27th, 2020)