Thread! ~10 years of living in the UK and getting regularly mocked for my accent in a "friendly" way I still find it humiliating.https://twitter.com/vivalaveloz/status/870126785308094464 …
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Replying to @hisotalus
in Germany people at work would start laughing as soon as I said anything in German, so I only used it outside work
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Replying to @Matt_Craddock @hisotalus
I'm a native speaker & still got mocked when I first moved here. I don't now, but I also don't hang out with any white British people.
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Amusingly I'm also a native speaker of my other language too and some people are so blinded by biases they think I have an English accent in
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