MIM SHAIKH
WANTS TO START A CONVERSATION
AROUND CLASS
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.
MIM SHAIKH
WANTS TO START A CONVERSATION AROUND CLASS
On code-switching and imposter syndrome in the media industry
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