Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 4
Our progressive betters would advise us to not use too many big words when speaking to POC.
It's Yale, which is the Gold Standard for sanitized language....
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/white-liber... White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-AmericansA new study suggests that white Americans who hold liberal socio-political views use language that makes them appear less competent in an effort to get along with racial minorities.
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No. of Recommendations: 1
Weird. I talk how I talk, to everyone. If I receive a look of puzzlement, I shift gears and use less "50 cent words", even though it often doesn't convey the message as well.
Of course, I worked in a high-tech professional environment. So the people I dealt with were well educated. A lot of my coworkers were Asian or Indian. We did have a few African-Americans, but not as many as I would expect based on US population demographics. Rarely did I have any issues communicating. I also had to write a lot of analysis reports, and used very technical/analytical jargon. But totally appropriate for the target audience (i.e. engineers who wanted to know the results).
No. of Recommendations: 2
Weird. I talk how I talk, to everyone. If I receive a look of puzzlement, I shift gears and use less "50 cent words", even though it often doesn't convey the message as well.
Of course, I worked in a high-tech professional environment. So the people I dealt with were well educated.
Less 50 cent words? Me? Heck, I'm sure my lack of ? education shows up here with my spelling and grammar.
As I said before I was edukated in the Black Board Jungle schools of Manhattan, didn't attend college.
It didn't stop me though attending a Public Tech school when my sons were old enough.
Yep, it was strange for a young women attending an all male attended tech school and the resentment of, 'what am I doing here? Long story short I received my machinist certificate and employed by a world wide prestigious company, machining components for their x-ray machines.
My salary equaled that and sometimes more than those of highly educated wo/men speaking the Kings English.
My skilled profession is in demand.
My Black and hispanic coworkers cheered me on. They knew where I was coming from, like them 'affirmative action' helped me break into areas of the snob educated elite.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Our progressive betters would advise us to not use too many big words when speaking to POC.
Also to the less educated.
POC and the less educated know when they are being 'talked down' to.
They are smarter than the progressives realized.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Yep, it was strange for a young women attending an all male attended tech school and the resentment of, 'what am I doing here? Long story short I received my machinist certificate and employed by a world wide prestigious company, machining components for their x-ray machines.
In grad school, there was a group of about 10 of us that all had to take the same courses. Two were women. This was 30 years ago. I don't know what it would be like now. But those women were in your situation.
And, yes, some vocations command really good salaries. One of those skyscraper crane operators probably earns twice what I ever did. It is a fact that a better education correlates to higher lifetime income. But there are always exceptions, and skilled trades can (and often is) one of them.
As for "snob", no I'm not. Son of a salesman. Lower middle class. "Born on commission". Infuriated my dad that I couldn't sell a space heater to an Eskimo, so to speak. My mother is convinced (or was convinced, she's dead now) that part of the reason for my large vocabulary is that they never talked down to me, or used baby talk. Ever. So I had to learn the words -as any child does-. So my vocabulary is fairly large, even without the technical stuff I picked up as a result of a physics major, and more industry terms picked up working in semiconductors. I never talk "down" to anyone. I talk how I talk to everyone. No discrimination. If I'm not understood, then I shift gears. Sometimes they aren't native English speakers, or don't have a technical education, or whatever. The point of vocabulary is communication. It is the speaker's job to be understood, whether I'm talking to you, or a Parisian**.
**I don't speak French. But I can't expect them to speak English for me. Enter "Google Translate".
