What did you just say he asked with a smirk slightly visible on his pale face. That was the greeting I received from my roommate on the first day of freshmen year at the ohio state university. I honestly didn’t understand what was so amusing so I repeated myself again to his amusement. What I would soon discover is that my roommate and many of the other students at OSU make snap decisions about my intelligence based on the way I speak being from southern Ohio meant I say things differently and they assume my accent demonstrates that I am not as smart as them. My response was to change the way I spoke. But the lesson I learned from the experience was that being proud of who I am is more important than the opinions of others
There is a proverb
There is a proverb