Deconstructing The Color of Language in the U.S.

Name: Deconstructing The Color of Language in the U.S.
Uploaded: 2019-06-27T14:14:55Z
Duration: 17 min 43 s
Description: We all have biases related to accents, whether racial, regional, or national. Allowing those biases to shape how we think of people's capabilities or intellect impacts both the recipient and the giver; we all lose. I offer three ways to deconstruct the color of language in the United States.

Aïcha Ly |

TEDxPhiladelphia

• May 2019

We all have biases related to accents, whether racial, regional, or national. Allowing those biases to shape how we think of people's capabilities or intellect impacts both the recipient and the giver; we all lose. I offer three ways to deconstruct the color of language in the United States.

Deconstructing The Color of Language in the U.S.

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