[Teresa20809]

I’m glad you brought this up. I find it odd too, especially since recently I’ve been working in a small town where the young men talk like this. I hear the black slang from them all the time. I could understand, like you said, if they had black friends or came from a black neighborhood, but this is almost never the case in this town, where the ‘minority’ population is like 0.7% and the rest is white. As for possible reasons, I don’t know–this seems beyond me. Probably rap or hip-hop music has influenced these young men, and they see this culture as glamorous. Yes, I agree the young white guys talking like black people is bothersome for several reasons; but then again I can’t say I’m any better. Throughout my life I’ve dressed or I’ve spoken in ways that are ‘not my own’ according to time period, culture, language, location, etc. With this in mind I try to put a positive spin on this kind of behavior–I think the imitations of black slang or whatever else are from admiration.

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Name : Teresa20809, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : Macomb, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : student, 

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