Talking like Ali G

[Blacksheep 10]

Before I get started with this thread…

I don't want this to get heated and I don't want to be called a racist I just want to hear forum member’s opinions.

So please think about your answer if you are merely going to cry racism at me , coz racist I am not.

 

Is it me or does anyone else find it absolutely ridiculous when Sheffield born and bred Asians talk with that weird Ali G accent?

What’s it all about?

Fitting in with their peer group?

Or sounding like the voice of disaffected yoof?

I just can’t figure out why someone born in Sheffield would not have, and be proud to have a Sheffield / Yorkshire accent.

 

My personal opinion is that they make themselves sound like they have a lack of intelligence and want to promote their identity as a socially suppressed group.

But worse than that is the inane notion that these individuals have that we all want to listen to them chattering at the top of their voices ‘Ali G’ style.

 

I guess some of you may think I am bigot.

Not unless being a Sheffielder is a bigot.

I don’t care about the colour of peoples skin, their racial background, sexual orientation or disabilities, it doesn't figure in my train of thought of anything.

But surely it has to be said that people who live in a place and have so much disregard for belonging to that place that they ‘put on’ an accent are as guilty of bigotry as those that abhor them doing it.

 

Discuss.

[nick2 10]

I'd love to be in the possition where I had time to worry about such inconsequential things.

[Code13 10]

I have seen white youths in Sheffield talking with Ali G accents.

[seriessix 10]

I have seen white youths in Sheffield talking with Ali G accents.

 

But have you heard them?

[lostnfound 10]

They're all over the country. It is not just a Sheffield thing. Although the stereotypical "Ali G" accent is very much a North London / Herts / Beds / Bucks thing.

 

I'd be fairly certain than it's merely fitting in with those that they socialise with and talking in that fashion is deemed to be "cool".

[Blacksheep 10]

I'd love to be in the possition where I had time to worry about such inconsequential things.

 

I reckon you must have the time or you wouldn't be on here at 14:45

[Code13 10]

"But have you heard them?"

 

Indeed I have.

[Alastair 12]

mi cru is snortin afta yo ass an wen we get u u is ded innit

[Jason Bourne 11]

Yes, it grates on the ears, and I would like them to speak with either a broader Yorkshire accent, or with more class, but as somebody else mentioned first, we have more pressing concerns... like the performance of our wretched football teams

[Jason Bourne 11]

mi cru is snortin afta yo ass an wen we get u u is ded innit

 

You and what army

[bagger 10]

mi cru is snortin afta yo ass an wen we get u u is ded innit

 

Do people really talk like this?

I think I'd find it hard not to laugh if I heard someone speak like that.

[Zamo 10]

I'd love to be in the possition where I had time to worry about such inconsequential things.

 

Thankfully though you have enough time to worry about such things as feminist fairies and why people hate Posh Spice!

 

It isn't just Sheffield or the Asians youth that seem to be abandoning regional accents. White kids all over the UK speak like it too.