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For example, a middle class, white producer starts conversing with a young, brown actor.

The young brown actor hasn’t grown up in an environment where he has ever spoken to someone with a received pronunciation accent.

Therefore, what he does is the only thing he knows how to do,  and that is to mirror  the person speaking in front of him.

He switches up  his code.

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On code-switching and imposter syndrome in the media industry