It's pride in heritage – not surface level white acceptance – that's changing speech among diaspora youth.
On the flipside, Dr Graham says: “More Black people are beginning to assert their identity, by refusing to conform to these cultural norms.”Code-switching isn’t just about assimilation into majority white settings, though. It can also be about the protection of a culture that’s gluttonously absorbed – a necessary gatekeeping, when thoseIf you’ve ever slipped into Black British vernacular at work, it’s not uncommon for white colleague to feel like they can start butchering “Stormzy phrases”.
As millennials or members of Gen-Z, some of us code-switch even when talking to our own Black Gen X or boomer relatives, because our lexicon is a far cry from theirs. t’s something I’ve been saying since I was a teen. Admittedly, I thought it meant something along the lines of, ‘It’s all mad in the gaff’. Not correct, but in essence, it conveys the same thing. Aweis says my incorrect interpretation is laughably, “such a British translation of the phrase”.
DJ and producer Kwame Safo , who’s of dual Nevisian and Ghanian heritage, believes young Black Brits may feel less pressure to code-switch, because their default dialects have been popularised.“Social media bridged a gap and expanded the accepted lexicon among white audiences,” says Safo, who’s“Pop culture has now evolved, because there’s more engagement with different aspects of it, through the likes of TikTok and Instagram.
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