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Originally Posted by sampvt
Are you saying that we should all be able to mimic a black or Asian person like we do the irish or scots. If thats the case then why have you just been jumping all over my head for a stereotype remark I made in innocence on another post. You have me confused.
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Intention is everything.
It's not mimicry or even parody when the other people speak in the same accent as the mainstream. It has darker under tones. Nasty ones IMHO.
Deanna doesn't have an Indian or Pakistani accent. So by directing one at her suggests your intention is to mock and ridicule her origins. Maybe belittle and maybe hate.
If I starting doing an Israeli accent to a British Jew from London who has an English accent And I did it with mocking and ridiculing suggestions you'd quickly understand I was being nasty at best. Racist at worst.
Another example. If you were standing in the middle of the Kalahari and the African bush men surrounded your average white Englishman sniggering exaggerated
"why ay man's" in a Geordie accent accompanied with lifting of beer gestures. Just because the Englishman's father was from Newcastle you might wonder that they were trying to offend based on his race and origins. .
I've never heard an Irish person Geordie or a cockney accent ridiculed in the BB house but perhaps mimicked with inclusion.
On the other hand mocking those who do have accents suggests a lack of intelligence and imagination and reeks of xenophobic insecurity also.
Yeah I know yada yada yada but in what accent........?