Linguistic Profiling

I felt extremely guilty while taking this quiz after I had read those two articles about accent discrimination.  Some accents were immediately identifiable, while number 3 was incredibly hard to place and black was the last race I guessed.  However,  I could quickly pick out within the first few words if an accent was Hispanic.  I am assuming that this is because of I have a lot of family members with this accent so I can easily pick it out, similar to recognizing if someone was white.  It got trickier for me between number 1, 3 and 8 because though they were all black, but had extremely different accents (some more familiar to me than others).  But simply the fact that we can tell which race the speaker was by their accent alone informs us about our own stereotypes formed by being exposed to pop culture.  Another clue from the speaker was how they read the common phrase "Mary had a little lamb".  If you were born and raised in the US, you probably heard this nursery rhyme at least a million times whereas if you immigrated to the country this nursery rhyme is not as familiar and therefore read it in a more staccato fashion.  The quiz overall was pretty fun and my roommates enjoyed trying to race who could guess it correctly first.