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One of my class peers wrote about this article titled “The Problem with Cornerville” by William Foote Whyte [1943], and due to their blog post, I became encourage to look into this supposed problem. What I have taken from this article is a culture-inferiority complex. Immediately I recognize that Whyte’s article is much outdated and its theory about Italians in respect to Americans in Cornerville, is merely a momentary piece of discrimination in history. In my immediate surroundings, I do not recognize the same social structure. As Whyte brings forth, “When the Italian boy sees that none of his own people have the good jobs, why should he think he is as good as the Irish or the Yankees?” (230). Most notably, growing up in the Greater Toronto Area, I have not seen this type of discrimination. Different races are seen in nearly any position of my municipalities. This discrimination that was visible in Cornerville is interesting to examine because it places a race in the place of a subculture, to which I would have not expected.
I’d like to draw a parrallel between this research and that of my good friend Malina Radu, a brilliant young Linguistics (Master’s) student at the University of Toronto. In her analysis of Southern accents she says, “Southerners are strongly inclined to abandon their dialects due to linguistic insecurity” (5). She continues with understanding the co-opting of a Southern accent to attempt to connect with the group of people.
Pawlenty mentions that: “settling the west wasn’t easy, winning World War Two wasn’t easy, […] – this ain’t about easy.This is about rollin’ up our sleeves,plowin’ ahead and getting the job done.” Pawlenty’s adopted speech patterns are an attempt to appear empathetic to his audience and their struggles. There is a stark contrast between the verbs that involve the alveolar final consonant and those that do not. This is important because the verbs in which there is a final alveolar consonant are all verbs that imply strenuous physical activity, which is a trope often associated with the farming communities of the South. By pronouncing the words in this manner, Pawlenty creates the illusion that he is the common Southern man, “common folk”, rather than a pretentious politician.
This is a pattern very similar to the rewards reaped in Cornerville when abandoning their heritage. As Whyte describes as well,
Society rewards those who slough off all characteristics that are regarded as distinctively Italian and penalizes those who are not fully Americanized. (229)
This comparison is worthy because we can see that although Whyte’s recollection of Italian discrimination seems outdated, similar happenings continue to exist. Malina Radu’s analysis outlining another culture-inferiority complex defines that outsiders are not able to penetrate the Southern culture despite their best efforts. The separation of insider/outsider is evident past, present and most likely future.
Gelder, Ken, and William Foote Whyte. “The Problem of Cornerville [1943].” The Subcultures Reader. London: Routledge, 2005. 228-30. Print.
Radu, Malina. “Y’all Hear! The Negative Perceptions of the Southern American Dialect.” (2012): 1-7. Print.
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Congressman Bobby Rush dons a hoodie in support of Treyvon Martin, violating House dress code.
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