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A question of race and language, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner tackles the racial discrimination and the problem of racial linguistics during a time when the blacks were not treated as equals; rather as a lesser race. The white would historically have a higher grasp of language due to their educational and linguistic hierarchy (Akyeampong, Gates, (n.d.) ,Dictionary of Afrikan Biography, Volume 6, page 269. Retrieved from: https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR25&lpg=PR25&dq=Dictionary+of+African+Biography&source=bl&ots=1zcp2lstXt&sig=0AHJ4cb-H74RBmJuZuyXmoIeDsA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVw9TjvPPPAhVmq1QKHbekBrE4ChDoAQgpMAU#v=onepage&q=Dictionary%20of%20African%20Biography&f=false). The movie, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, takes place in the time when race was just another thing to discriminate people by, something to use to separate and segregate people into social constructs. …show more content…
It is no longer a question of whether not Dr. John Prentice is capable of starting a family, rather a question of the problems the young couple will need to face for the future to come. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a movie that not only shows the linguistic difference of the different races, but also of the biased nature of white culture at that time. (S. Tarrow, (n.d.), The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688-2012, page 100. Retrieved from: https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=pak0AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false) People of color have their own distinct slang and idiolect making it the linguistic hierarchy more prevailing because of the context, message, and sender's own

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