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Your accent is we-ahd

August 21, 2015 by Carie Little Hersh Leave a Comment

Your accent is we-ahd

I grew up a Navy brat, bouncing from coast to coast in the U.S. until the 11th grade, when I hunkered down in the South for more than a decade. Although I had visited family in New England, and my grandmother retained her New Hampshire accent through five decades of living in North Carolina, when I moved north after grad school I was unprepared for the radically unique accent, temperament, and driving style that is Boston. After I made the transition north in 2007, the learning curve was steep. Driving successfully required a transition from extreme patience, a trait required in North Carolina (where drivers will stop at a green light for 30 seconds to allow another driver to enter the road), to extreme efficiency in the Boston area (where drivers feel it is a moral imperative to honk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Enculturation / Learning Culture, Ethnicity, Language Tagged With: American Regional Difference, Boston Accent, Cultural Bias, Cultural Relativism, Culture, Culture Shock, Emic, Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, Etic, Language, Linguistics, Marked and Unmarked Ethnicities, Representation, Reverse Culture Shock

Dr. Carie Little Hersh

Dr. Carie Little Hersh is an American cultural anthropologist, former attorney, and teaching professor in Anthropology at Northeastern University. This is her personal blog about anthropology and its relevance to everyday life.

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