Saturday, February 18, 2006  More on PC Racial and Ethnic
Prejudice  When I wrote my blog on The Last Bastion of PC
Prejudice, I was unaware of the work of John Baugh who has done
a 2 year study of the phenomenon of linguistic prejudice. In a
press release put out on February 2, 2006 by the University of
Washington at St. Louis, it notes that his research demonstrates
both that people can make correct racial and ethnic
identifications by hearing a voice on the telephone and that
there is systematic prejudice against Hispanics and African
Americans. In a press release called Linguistic profiling: The
sound of your voice may determine if you get that apartment or
not he is said to have claimed that some companies screen calls
on answering machines and don't return calls of those whose
voices seem to identify them as black or Latino and goes on to
say Some companies instruct their phone clerks to brush aside
any chance of a face-to-face appointment to view a sales
property or interview for a job based on the sou