poopy caca :
Not a professional or anything but as someone who studies linguistics and culture just out of interest i want to chime in .While, yes, there is linguistic appropriation ofc, i think there is sometimes genuine merit in the "i grew up around black people" statement. Thats just how language works. If you grow up in china, youll speak chinese, if you grow up in new york, youll have the accent, if you grow up in the south youll have that accent, so if you grow up "with black people" youll speak the way they do. I will say though, i put that in quotes because—in my experience, its less of a race divide at this point and more of a class divide, wherein people in low class ir poorer areas speak differently to surrounding places. Personally im hispanic, and i grew up in a few underdeveloped neighborhoods and heres my view. When im with people from the same background as me, regardless of race, i speak a certain way (which we're calling ebonics or AAVE or anything else) because thats how the people i learned to speak from spoke. Now when im with other company, like my extended family or school or wtv, i talk differently.
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