Code Switching: Identity & Belonging Explained #shorts

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Now, code switching traditionally is more like, okay, uh I mentioned Black American English first. So, I speak, you know, more this way when I'm in the black community, but uh as a black person who's working outside the black community, I'm switching to what's considered more standard English, not my variety of English in my neighborhood, right? Uh so, we talked about that with variation.

[00:00:24]But, that that connects to how how where you feel you belong. And you might be someone who, you know, wants to uh stay more in one variety or more in another variety or wants to go back and forth.