Code Switching

In a minority group situation, you sort of switch your behavior around to match what the majority group is doing. If i look back at my own accent switching, my nebefet accent wasn't going to necessarily work superwell and ivy league classes,. that wasn't the way these high status, higher class people talked. So i start speaking a fo british accent. But if a british scholar, for whatever reason, came to southern new jersey and spent a summer down the shore, they would not adopt the local vernacular. And this is te reasont again. I have lost, sadly, my new bedford accent until i go back to new bedford