LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Code Switch, Ethnolect, African American Vernacular English
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Race is a biologically engineered feature, skin colour, skin tone, your eye, hair, tendency to develop certain diseases, related to your appearance: cannot be changed, physical (ex. Ethnicity is a learned cultural behaviour: cultural (italian, sri lankan, german ) You can know someone"s race and not ethnicity, ex knowing someone is. Asian but not knowing which asian country they are from. People move to other countries for different reasons (education, due to war, travel social and political forces). When they move to a country the first use their first language and then they little by little they learn a second language and keep some of their feature from their first language ethnolects . Dialect created and spoken by a specific ethnic group. They keep some features from l1 while learning l2. Speaking your second language with an accent and not being fluent in it. In usa the division is black and white, and its something seen throughout history.
