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Learn "American English" ... say what???
Every time I see or hear this phrase “American English” here
in China,
it makes me want to scream (though I’ve never done it so far). So when I saw
the “rants and raves” section under TDG, I figured I’d do it anyway. So without
further ado, on to the main topic of discussion: “Learn American English”….say what??
Before I start: - This rant is against all those floozies (you know who you are…)who
promote “American English” to be the only form of English worth learning and
listening to and the rest of the English speakers can just go on straight to
hell.
Why not “Learn
English” instead of learn an Americanized version of a language that wasn’t
American to start with anyway? What sense does it make for all these private school
administrators and foreign “English coaching centers” to proudly advertise “we
hire native American English speakers to teach you”? I guess they think a
“non native” (read non Caucasian American) cannot speak “American English” or
be taken seriously enough…to the point where some job applications for teachers
here will have a section asking the applicant if they are Caucasian or not (in
addition to their nationality).
If that isn’t
discrimination based upon nationality and skin tone, then what is??
To a lot of people around here, this question would seem
ludicrous as US (Caucasian accented) English appears to be THE only acceptable
form of spoken and written English which is a monumentally ignorant and arse backwards way of thinking. Worse, all other
races/cultures are automatically classified as not speaking “American English”
(even if they do speak it).
UGH, what morons *BLECH*
Um, newsflash….the last time I checked, there were many
different forms of “American English”. There are African Americans, Hispanics,
Asians and many other races who’ve been living in the US for years
now and are “Americans”, and speak differently from Caucasian speakers. Is
their English not “American English”?
Nooooooo….apparently not, from all
the blabber about hiring only native
(read Caucasian) English speakers to “teach” English.
Am I “reading” too much into the word “native”? Negative. To
confirm, all one has to do is to try and apply for a job teaching English
around this neck of the woods…
I myself can speak flawless “American” English (as spoken in
certain parts of the US),
unfortunately if I try to teach English, then I get the standard answer of “sorry,
we want American English “speakers. Apparently American English isn’t good
enough for the schools around here; they want “Caucasian American English”… It
happens even when I speak English…
UGH again, you
imbeciles.
The point of this is not
to down American English or the US - rather, it is meant as a dig against all
the bird brained school administrators and private coaching centres
(yes, I spelt it CENTER and not CENTER, and bollocks to all who don’t like it -
balls to Bill Gates and Microsoft Word for underlining it in red) around here
who try and spout this meaningless theory of “native American English”, as it
is nothing short of blatant discrimination. These are usually also the people
who can barely speak “any” form of English themselves, let alone try and
discriminate against others.
Note to all such monkeys:
SHUT up. Enough pollution around here, without ya’ll adding
to it. Try and learn about how the rest of the world speaks and interacts in
English for starters…then and only then, talk.
Well, that’s about it for now. Hope I haven’t upset too many
here with this rant but if I did, then so be it and rats to you.
Written by
- a
pissed off gwai (gwei? I
never could learn Cantonese pinyin) lo in China…
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