Essay: The Hollywood Hypothesis

[pordaria]

Exploring sociology is on my list of important "To Dos". I don't think that the Effective Education Project will be able to build a more effective school system without the builders of that system having a good grasp of both psychology and sociology. And I have yet done much formal study of either

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[the_7th_guest]

I agree that Hollywood has had a major role in the fact that the world thinks that Americans don't have an accent. There are the few actors and actresses such as Julia Roberts who speak with their "twang", but those are the few versus the many actors who make their living or live in Hollywood/California and are portrayed in movies.

I also think a lot of the West Coast's lack of accents come from the fact that the East Coast was populated first before people migrated this direction. I think a lot of the accents that we hear in the New England/New York/New Jersy area have trickled down eventually from the English, Irish, accent, and perhaps the Southern 'twang' has developed over the years from the French speaking people from the New Orleans area. Who knows. Like you said I am sure there have been studies on this but at this point I am basing my theories on complete conjecture.