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How You Say It
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do? And What It Says About You | Katherine D. Kinzler
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"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals (…more)
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Language bias, it's a thing. And as the book points out, it's often unconscious, but worse, uncontested as far as discrimination goes. I didn't know that multilingualism is viewed by many as a detriment to intellect (a false and persistent myth). I also didn't know how deeply linguistics set us up for in/out grouping behavior. A lot of information in this book from babies to race to the legal system.

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A study about how language can become a barrier but also a connection. Rethinking language bias and how to become a better citizens of the world