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Off topic: Politician speaking the national language with a foreign accent Tēmas autors: wonita (X)
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wonita (X)
Ķīna
Local time: 01:21
Is it accepted in your country?
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| This reminds me | Jan 5, 2012 |
That time when Aznar spent some time in the USA with Bush and in the following press conference for Spain we talked in a weird Texan accent. Made him the laughing stock for a long time!
And answering your question, no, it is not accepted, it's just ridiculous!
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Vadim Kadyrov 
Ukraina
Local time: 08:21
Biedrs (kopš 2011)
angļu - krievu
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| The Prime Minister | Jan 5, 2012 |
of my country does not speak the only official language of it. Those rare occasions when he does are the funniest TV shows I have ever watched.
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Jean-Pierre Artigau (X)
Kanāda
Local time: 01:21
angļu - franču
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| Canadian version | Jan 5, 2012 |
In Canada nobody would notice. We have several members of parliaments (federal and provincial) and ministers who were born and raised in other countries. Not to mention Queen Elizabeth II (technically our head of state and of 15 other countries), who definitely has a certain British accent. See how tolerant we are!
Jean-Pierre
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Heinrich Pesch
Somija
Local time: 08:21
Biedrs (kopš 2003)
somu - vācu
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If the person in question has spent his/her youth abroad and speaks the language as well as s/he is able to, what can you do about it? More important what they say than how.
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| France - Eva Joly | Jan 5, 2012 |
This is currently an issue affecting Green Party presidential candidate Eva Joly in France. She is originally Norwegian, but has lived in France for decades.
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Ty Kendall
Apvienotā Karaliste
Local time: 06:21
ebreju - angļu
| England - is there a choice? | Jan 5, 2012 |
We have plenty of politicians who speak English with a non-standard or foreign accent.
On the whole, nobody cares....not that they could really. To not accept it would be committing the most heinous crime in modern Britain: Racism. (Or the label of "Racist", which is just as bad).
It also depends on how far up the political food chain they are, we rarely tolerate provinical or foreign accents in the Prime Minister, look at Gordon Brown, he was only Scottish (not exactl... See more We have plenty of politicians who speak English with a non-standard or foreign accent.
On the whole, nobody cares....not that they could really. To not accept it would be committing the most heinous crime in modern Britain: Racism. (Or the label of "Racist", which is just as bad).
It also depends on how far up the political food chain they are, we rarely tolerate provinical or foreign accents in the Prime Minister, look at Gordon Brown, he was only Scottish (not exactly foreign and his accent wasn't exactly hardcore Glaswegian either) yet it was used as a negative whenever anyone wanted to lambast him. ▲ Collapse
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Dave Bindon
Grieķija
Local time: 08:21
grieķu - angļu
In memoriam
Former PM of Greece, George Papandreou, who was born and raised in the USA, has often been criticized for his 'poor' Greek. Most people forgive his few errors, but I doubt they'd have accepted him if he had a foreign accent or a non-Greek surname.
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| United States | Jan 5, 2012 |
Not sure about really rural areas, but in Chicago hardly a day goes by when one of my public interactions with people doesn't include someone with a foreign accent - I don't even think about it, and I don't think it bothers the vast majority of people here when politicians speak with an accent.
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nordiste
Francija
Local time: 07:21
angļu - franču
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Michele Fauble wrote:
This is currently an issue affecting Green Party presidential candidate Eva Joly in France. She is originally Norwegian, but has lived in France for decades.
Eva Joly speaks a very good French but with a strong accent, and her political opponents keep criticizing her quite rudely about it or making bad jokes.
Conservatives also accuse her of not knowing French culture and traditions, as she was not raised in France.
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JH Trads
ASV
Local time: 01:21
Biedrs (kopš 2007)
angļu - franču
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Famous example of former President Gonzalo ("Goni") Sanchez de Lozada, who had an extremely thick American accent when speaking Spanish
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...as long as he/she does not speak nonsense, it is accepted in my country.
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JH Trads
ASV
Local time: 01:21
Biedrs (kopš 2007)
angļu - franču
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| Bolivia/Chile | Jan 5, 2012 |
Goni's accent did not exactly help his popularity in Bolivia. Let me stray a little bit away from politics. In Chile, a few years ago, one public figure who was very popular and considered by many to be as important as most politicians was Marcelo Bielsa, an Argentine citizen who was coaching the Chilean soccer team. He was revered despite his obvious Argentinian accent.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
Kanāda
Local time: 23:21
holandiešu - angļu
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Jean-Pierre Artigau wrote:
In Canada nobody would notice. We have several members of parliaments (federal and provincial) and ministers who were born and raised in other countries. Not to mention Queen Elizabeth II (technically our head of state and of 15 other countries), who definitely has a certain British accent. See how tolerant we are!
Jean-Pierre
Not only that but federal cabinet ministers and civil service officials are required to be able to speak both English and French and are bound to have an accent in one or the other.
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It is accepted, but sometimes ridiculed. Some of the representatives of ethnic minorities (e.g. Hungarians) have a strong Hungarian accent when they speak Romanian - whether or not deliberately, I don't know. Some even make typical mistakes, but that happens even with some of the native Romanian politicians. Regretfully, not all politicians are fine intellectuals...
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