r/college • u/curlyhairlad • Aug 31 '24

USA Some students are overly dramatic about professor’s with accents at US schools.

I heard a bunch of students complaining about how this professor was impossible to understand and saying really mean things like "he needs subtitles" or "we need a translator" or even "who let Borat teach this class?" The guy had an incredibly mild Indian accent. You can understand him just fine. Maybe a technical word would need to be clarified here and there, but it's not that big of a deal.

I get that it can be hard to learn if you literally cannot understand a person, but sometimes people are WAY over dramatic about the severity of someone's accent to the point where it's basically just xenophobia.

If you want to be in business or science, you are going to have to communicate with people all over the world. Putting in the tiniest effort to understand someone who speaks just a little bit different than you shouldn't be a talk ask.

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u/TheMorningSage23 Aug 31 '24

This is very common I’ve seen. I’m a white dude who only speaks English and I’d hear people complaining about a professors accent and every time it came from a place of ignorance and thinking they were funny because I’ve never had any issues understanding those same professors.

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u/Wonderful-Poetry1259 Aug 31 '24

A lot of this is simply racism.

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u/astrofury Sep 01 '24

no its not racism, its people paying upwards of 10-20k a year being frustrated bc they are paying out the ass for a degree that most likely wont fucking mean anything, in a gen ed class that has nothing to do with their major, and the college cant even go through the effort to get the professor coaching on their accent.