Why do different races have distinct voices?

Question

Why do asians have the same accent. why do blacks have the same accent. I don't get it. Is there something genetic about their vocals or throat? But how do you explain how sometimes you can get your voice to sound white like those news people. They all sound the same!

Answer 1

I assume you mean "accents"? I've found it is more regional, and sometimes cultural, than racial. I've heard white people who "sounded black", yet many black people speak English with a Brirish accent. Certainly Jamacian accents are different from the Gangsta accent.  Many Southerners have pronounced accents; but some raised in different parts of the same state will have regional accents. The Cajun accent is often mistaken for black, when the language and culture is derived from the French culture. I don't have an ear for a

Asian accents, but for people who do, English spoken with a Chinese accent sounds utterly different from English spoken with a Japanese or Korean accent. I'm sure it's more to do with how and where you learn to speak than it is the color of your skin.

Answer 2

in every language you use your throat and voice in a specific way, this why people who are not native speakers sound different and by their accent you can tell where they are from.

You may say, not only people from a specific country but a wider area like African or Asian people may sound similar.

They are similar but it is not that similar if you pay attention. It is similar because their languages are mostly from the same language family (there are groups and families in languages also) so they tend to use their throat and voice in a similar manner.

It is not anyting genetic, as you can see in children with Arfican or Asian origin, brought up in GB  by British people speak like a Brit. and if brought up in US they'll sound like Americans

Answer 3

No it is a cultural thing.  People learn to talk when very young and it is hard to change the basic way of pronouncing words.

Answer 4

Asian kids who was born here or raised here, have no accent, likewise other immigrants but blacks have their own accent because they learn it in their family and community, it's all cultural

Answer 5

yeah their accents come from their forefathers

just handed down through the ages just like our own

c yah..

Answer 6

It is where you live. You copy the sound without knowing it. The language has a sound and then when you change language you still---accent certain letters, sounds with your original language pronunciation.

Answer 7

Yeah thats right, its all cultural and/or geographical... it's all about fitting in... take an asian man... relocate him to the UK, and if he has the right motivation to assimilate into the British community, he  will develop a Brit accent soon enough... on the other hand, if he sticks to his own kind (only mingles with asians most of the time), he is more likely to retain his original accent... as pointed by others, nothing to do with race.

Answer 8

Accents are not genetically determined, nor racially based. They are determined by the sounds you learned while acquiring your native tongue. Different languages, which exist in different parts of the world, require different sounds.

I'm sorry, but I can't provide more of a reply because this question is so mind-blowingly stupid that I have will now have to bang my head against the wall repeatedly to wipe out the memory of it.