I disagree with your coworker, you don’t come off condescending at all IMHO.Pjmm wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:31 amIdk maybe it is an effort to get along with minorities. I've been accused, by an uneducated white coworker, of using big words and being uppity because I'm college educated and he's a hs dropout. Personally I feel I'm speaking to him as I would anyone. I told him so ask me what you don't understand because I assume you do otherwise. I speak how i speak get over it. So the next study should be if white people also do this to whites based on perceived socio economical status. Also I would wonder if the liberal is patterning his or her speech based on the region. Southern rural blacks and whites use simpler speech than probably do those in the suburbs of Boston. I probably do that myself especially at work with clients. They have to understand what we're doing so I might try to mirror their speech. I consider myself a moderate.water<wine wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:56 pmits not the only article reporting on the Study's findings.
The authors , Cydney Dupree, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale University, and Susan Fiske, a psychology professor at Princeton University, described the phenomenon as “competence downshifting.”
here are more articles:
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/ne ... tends.html
https://www.wnpr.org/post/study-white-l ... ack-people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... -contends/
You make a good point. I have been treated like I’m a stupid Mississippi girl when I’ve done business with a few people outside of the south and so has my white counterparts. I do think people should be mindful of that.