Are your biases about race and nationality actually based more on language than other factors.?

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Please do not claim not to have any biases, we all do.

Could we solve  many of our social problems if schools  offered instruction that made our spoken language uniform  erasing regional and national accents. Studies have shown that babies  prefer to eat foods offered to them by a native speaker compared to a speaker of a foreign language. And older children say that they want to be friends with someone who speaks in their native accent.' Accents and vernacular, far more than race, seem to influence the people we like. 'Children would rather be friends with someone who is from a different race and speaks with a native accent versus somebody who is their own race but speaks with a foreign accent.'

MK6 · Accepted Answer

Language is the initial key to any inter-personal relationships. It's the most divisive issue to any community. 

As an example, - read up on the tower of Babel.

Relationships are hindered by names I feel embarrased to try to pronounce, to jokes that other's cultures don't understand or appreciate, to vernaculars that aren't familiar to non-native cultured 'others'.

Lynda C · Answer

Whatever biases I may have, I do not think they are based on language. I grew up in a part of the country where many people spoke a foreign language and also had accented English.
To be against someone who spoke English with an accent, I would have to be against a very large number of people who are friends and relatives.

Digital Age · Answer

You cannot erase regional and national accents and dialects.
I do know from experience with the John Birch Society though, that is everyone speaks English and subscribes to a European-American Cultural concept, everyone gets along better and there is no great amount of racism.

? · Answer

I have not studied the Baha'i' religion up to I desire to ( and I will research extra ). But what I have learn used to be very enlightening. In a few historical texts it's stated that Jesus studied it. I have no idea whether it is actual or now not. But there are pleasant similarities in a few of Jesus teachings and the Baha'i' religion. While I am and can stay a Christian I will say that the sector might be a larger position if extra men and women took their sayings to center (rather of pondering they do, like so much Christians in these days). Whether it's Jesus or Baha'i'.

Nna g · Answer

I was about to ask a question about racism also to see if people would admit it. I do have biases not only with accent factor.
I admit I don't like chatting with Indians & those in Middle Eastern countries. In chatting there is no voice involved . So its not how they speak but the reason is that some don't have chatting etiquettes. They are mostly rude & egotistical pricks. 
Accent cannot be deleted unless you were thought from the early age by a native English Speaker. 
And I don't like radical Muslims- those suicide bombers/terrorists .

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Are your biases about race and nationality actually based more on language than other factors.?

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