21. "this is larger black culture. (prolly white, too, but idgafat). " In response to In response to 0
i remember walt wolfram (linguist at ncsu and head of the linguistics assoc for the US, whatever the name is) wrote a book a few years ago on aave / ebonics and basing his studies in eastern shore, nc.
and what he found was that regional identifiers in aave were vanishing.
i THINK he pointed out a cause, but if not, it was my .02, but culture, in general, is more nationalized due to the proliferation and pervasiveness of media.
so when you have BET (and all the other channels, and now, youtube and all the other sites and social media), there is a nationalization of culture.
young kids in the chi identifying more with youngins from ATL or from NY more than the old heads from the chi. and vice versa.
and then you got the corporate entities holding up what's representative (and southern rap crushed the buildings and flipped the decades long script of southern and western and midwestern rappers tryna sound new yorkish)... the homogenization of rap as a marker for homogenization of culture is unsurprising.
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