Code Switching: When Do You Feel the Need to Code Switch?

Hank and john answer a question about code switching. When do you feel the need to code switch? What kind of personal filter do you use when talking to each other, your friends? What is the benefit of acknowledging when you are code switching? Hank: It's something that i did not realize until well into my thirties. Because of the ability that the internet has given me to talk to people, lots of people who are not like me, that i code switch all the time. And it is one of the really unthought about privileges of being a white male,. That i can codswitch constantly and then in the circumstances where i feel like i can't, i am so