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Disadvantages Of Linguistic Profiling

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Denise Gutierrez
Professor Buchanan
English 73x
21 February 2017

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People are not only discriminated by their race and gender but also on the way one may speak. Judging someone base on their ethnicity or gender voice is called linguistic profiling. Linguistic profiling can be a benefit or a disadvantage depending on the situation.
Linguistic profiling often happens over the phone. Author Patrica Rice, from linguistic profiling tells us how one individual goes through this discrimination when he tries to buy a house. Baugh himself writes, "I could do a comedy routine about reactions and what they didn't say... ‘Oh we didn't know you were black on the phone" (189). In other words, he was rejected by a real estate agent because of ethnicity. …show more content…

In stating this, Lopez is reminding us that because of not being able to speak fluently in Spanish she was an outcast and looked down on because of her ethnicity. I don't speak fluent Spanish and I'm constantly judged by my father who is a native Spanish speaker. There's times when I'm too embarrassed to have a conversation with him because if I mispronounce a word or can't say a specific word he'll call me out on it and tell me "how are you Mexican". The judgment not only comes from my dad but from others as well. I've learned to get used to it because the fact is, I’m a Latina and proud of my ethnicity and if someone doesn’t like that it should be their problem not mine.Although I don’t care if people think I’m not a true Mexican for not being a fluent speaker, it can be a big disadvantage because it can cause a loss of job …show more content…

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