People of Glasgow share their views on accent prejudice

Glaswegians share their views on whether people are still judged because of their accents.

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00:00It's not just what they see, it's definitely what they hear as well, and they automatically

00:05will associate where somebody comes with, whether or not they're trustworthy.

00:11I think we've got beyond that. I think that was possibly the case maybe 20 years ago.

00:15But I would hope that we've got beyond that, that we see people as they are.

00:19One of the biggest problems in the UK as far as I'm concerned is we've got an apartheid

00:24education system, where people are groomed and streamed basically from when you hit the

00:29age of education. Some people get groomed and streamed into private education, and that

00:35probably sets out a path for the way you relate to people and develop contacts the rest of

00:43your life.

00:44So I think there's loads of prejudice that goes on. I would say that was just a given

00:51and be perhaps a bit naive to think it's not the case.

00:55We go too much on how someone speaks as opposed to actually what it is they're saying, and

00:59we miss what they're saying because we're too busy focused on how they actually sound.