Comment by dwringer
4 years ago
I doubt you'd be called non-white but it's probably contextual. I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it would be likely to come up. You would not be confused with sounding like a "white American", though.
The ridiculousness of what it means to "sound white" is the subject of lots of humor. I think Dave Chappelle did a pretty good mockery of it with his news reporter character. There's also a pretty funny scene in Sorry to Bother You where Danny Glover is explaining his call center success to LaKeith Stanfield.
I found Sorry to Bother You quite funny, a bit scary, fairly accurate (as someone who worked in several call centers) and unusual in many ways-- it's also extremely relevant to this thread.