Canadian English Accent: Does it have a racial bias?

I wonder about the frowning faces over the different English accents. English is spoken in more than half a dozen accents worldwide. Australian, British, American and Canadian accents are the major ones and everyone has a silly proud attached to their own accent. Language plays an important role while giving instructions to the workers; communication is a vital issue between workers and employers. A Canadian accent lover has a very rigid approach towards their accent, particularly when they are facing a new immigrant worker. They expect the new immigrants to speak the way they do. It plays an important part while doing internal promotion of the staff. I see it as a tool. I see it as a hypocrite’s device.

Scene number one, when you go to a store like Best Buy, Future Shop, Wal-Mart and interact with the staff, they try to satisfy you despite of your poor English or accent. In some cases they will call a sales person of the same nationality to communicate with the customer. You know why? - Because, they want to sell their products. Scene number two, when you are an immigrant and asking for a job in the same store, their attitude will change. Now they want you to speak the way they do. This behaviour is not acceptable. Moreover it’s only a technological issue now. We should have developed such a device which can understand any language in the world and translate it into the required language. Germany did it recently and they implemented it in a University which translates the German lectures into English so that the students don’t have to learn German in order to study in the University.

Canada is stuck with its accent, showing its backwardness despite the fact that it is a country for immigrants, made by immigrants and still open to immigrants. We have to shun these kinds of trivialities in our professional behavior if we want a respectable place in the world or want to be called a civilized society in future.

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