I'm white, but I was raised in Detroit, which is only 5% white. In my middle school I was surrounded by ebonics, but I am also a nerd and consequently use big words. My friends always laugh at the way I talk because it's a mix of british accents for no reason, ebonics, and big words.

As a Brit I often find that you get the odd tourist who's like this with British (read: Victorian or some strange pseudo-upper class) culture.

This troper, working as a teacher in Hong Kong, has had a teenaged Philippine student who proudly describes himself as "a nigger" and refers to a Chinese kid in the same school who fancies himself a rapper as "a wannabe". I wish I were making this up.

You taught Chad Warden?

This Troper was in history class once, when the teacher told us our final would have 200 questions. My reaction? #QUOTE# This Troper: Are you fo' reals?

I got strange looks for that one.

This troper had some self-proclaimed gang-members in his highschool class that spoke with a lot of slang. Even though one of them had skin dark enough to pass as a negro, she was French and we were in the Philippines.

''Negro?''

A black person.

The term is accepted as an insult in some parts of the world.

So is everything else.

It also happens to be the Spanish word for "black". Live with it.

Except that one is pronounced "knee-grow" and the other is pronounced "nay-grow."

And the pronunciation intended by the OP is obvious.

And it's and it's pronounced "neh-gro".

It's worth pointing out that people in most of the world doesn't really feel offended by the term "negro." In Brazil, people will refer to each other as "negro" or "japones" and people will not so much as raise an eyebrow. Due to negative implications it has picked up in America, it's no longer acceptable here, but judging by the United Negro College Fund, it once was.

It is in some places in America. This troper lives in a small town in the southeast (*gags*), and it's considered the politically correct term for a black person, second only to African-American. Then again, anything you're told in this town should be taken with a grain of salt, if not a bucketful.

This troper (white and British) mistakenly attended a speed dating event that was really a front for matchmaking Chinese couples. A few days later, an abusive message was left on her Facebook from someone calling her a wannabe for her behaviour at the event: trying to use her faltering Mandarin and mentioning relatives in Taiwan.

This troper has had people tell him he looks like Mcluvin, so makes the occasional joke with mates, talking "gangsta".

You too?

This troper has faced this, but not necessarily for his language usage. Rather, for singlehandedly disproving myths about the physical differences between blacks and whites.

How can you do that singlehandedly? Surely you'd need a considerable sample size to disprove any such myths.

This troper's high school is ''absolutely'' full of these people. And I mean, 90% of the guys are like this, if not more. It's quite hillarious seeing a dozen of perfectly white, filthy rich Spanish 16-year-olds talking in broken English and possibly thinking they could pass for black rappers if they only got a tan.

This Troper protests the term wigger, but yeah, especially since I started watching ''TheWire'' I slip some ebonics at times, 'namean? Also, I got the gangsta walk when not in hurry.

This troper's school has more than a few people like this. Usually {{lampshaded}} by the handful of actual black people, or by me.

"Yo' homes, why you hatin' on a brotha?"

"Because you're whiter than I am."

Think of the white of copy paper, with a heavy dose of cinnamon sprinkles on top, and that's what PyroSkittle's skin tone looks like. In person, she once decided to crack a VGCats reference ("Fo' Reelz?" with a very hopeful face,) and was told by a Puerto Rican girl to never say that again. PyroSkittle then twisted her neck like a bobblehead and bitchslapped the Puerto Rican girl before Pyro told her to never "sez I wad-n't gots 'nuff FLAVER" again. She was too terrified of the gigantic biker chick smacking her across the cheek to do anything but cower. Then, PyroSkittle hugged her and made it all better. What? She was new at the school. She didn't know any better.

...{{What}}.

This troper often winds up as a white best friend or a token white guy. People always mistake me for this trope until I open my mouth.

The same happens to me sometimes. Then I get yelled at for using big words...

Inverted with this black troper. His country is largely black, and his mom is an English teacher, so he talks like his countrymen's image of a white guy. Thing is, the white guys here usually talk like black guys.

Lots of people I know, but one guy stands out, who is a white guy who ''insists'' that he is actually black.

Oi vey. I have three guy friends who a. Insist they're black b. Insist they're also albinos, so therefore, they just look white with a tan. And one of them (Ben) is very white and very blonde, so all of the black kids at my school insist on calling him White Whale (so maybe he's a wittle chubby...) until he stops calling himself gangsta/black. Sadly, Ben now gets taunted with whale calls, all the time. And he still thinks he's the dopest trip...sigh.

This troper has no idea what iteration of tropeplay falls in here, but she has a friend from Scotland who is black, but fails horribly at using African-American slang.

Not that rare. I have a friend who is African-American, but his voice gets higher-pitched as he starts getting excited, so the slang doesn't exactly have its intended effect. Also,(and I sincerely apologize for this joke, but) your friend is black, and Scottish, right? She wouldn't happen to wear an eyepatch, would she?

There was a Romanian boy at my old school who was convinced that he was "gangsta". He was taunted mercilessly by pretty much everyone.

Do you live in Mississauga? I remember a kid like that. Don't remember his name, but he moved away within 2 years. Bloody hilarious.

I am at fault for this trope for two reasons

I sometimes put up a "American" (Read: really bad texan) accent when I am joking around

I pull a "Scouser" (AKA: Liverpudlian) accent when I try to imitate the Beatles, it sounds like a mix between a Scottish accent and a Victorian accent. My brother regularly attempts uses this accent, and fails.

This troper's very white (and rather nerdy) husband once had to explain to one of his black students (in PG-terms) the meaning of 'OPP'. This prompted another student to remark, "''Damn''--you just got out-blacked by the whitest teacher in the school!"

I live in Texas, and further more, I grew up there. In a rural farm-ranch community, with a graduating high school class of 62 students. (Most schools loose students before graduation. We GAINED students.) When people try to act "country", it comes off like this. Especially when they abuse the third person plural pronoun.

DEFCON 1 - Me being obviously Asian (from a Filipino family where most of us ''don't look Asian'', or at least, don't have the slanted eyes), I sometimes do mangled Chinese Pidgin.

I use the stereotypical Filipino accent and pidgin when talking to my mother.

Nothing is worse than sitting in a school busride with a white blonde who goes on and on in complete seriousness about how she wishes she was black so she could say things like "Fo sizzle! What's up in the hood? I'mma shoot y'all up!" She even said she wanted to do that while walking through the ghetto, 'cus, like, they would totally accept her then! Cue the genuinely black girl behind her going "Ya know, its a good thing there are no BLACK PEOPLE on this bus!"

She's not talking black, she's talking stupid. Even in the proverbial hood, black people do not talk like she does. They use their own mannerisms, but any black guy would also get laughed at if he started with "Fo sizzle! What's up in the hood? I'mma shoot y'all up!". But yes, they would indeed accept her very much, though not for her blackness but for, err, her whiteness and female-ness. Blondes are quite a commodity in places like that.

I frequently found myself having to remind my middle school classmates that they were upper middle class white Jews from the Upper West Side, and did not grow up in "the hood", so they really shouldn't talk like they were. One of them even called himself black. When called out on it, he responded that he "converted". High school is slightly better, with the slang still thrown around but with the excuse that the school is as diverse as it gets and many kids are from "the hood". I am guilty of a few "yo"s and "'sup"s myself, though more out of general laziness than a desire to sound cool.

This Troper can't help but remember a time when her pale-as-Snow-White friend decided to learn dance moves from the one black kid in her town. When her friend went to demonstrate them, thinking she was the coolest thing ever, everyone in the vicinity was cracking up for a good 15 minutes; no one could stop laughing.

This troper's husband, a high school teacher, once had to explain to one of his black students the (PG version) meaning of "OPP". After a beat, a student in the vicinity exclaimed (to the first student), "Dude--you just got out-blacked by the ''whitest'' teacher in the school!"

One guy at my school is probably one of the most pathetic examples of this trope that I have ever seen. Before I start just let me explain, my school is a private school for kids with diagnosed behavioral issues (i.e Autism, ADD, Bipolar Disorder etc.) in an affluent suburb, but most of the students who go there (such as myself) are sponsored by their respective school districts who basically want to get these kids off of their backs. This kid is one of the minority of students there whose parents can actually afford to send him there, yet he still tries to act like a gangster. Despite his act being rejected by almost literally everyone there, ''especially'' the actual black students, who can just barely tolerate it, he seems convinced that he is awesomely popular and will pick on this openly nerdy students, despite having had his ass handed to him by one of them once.

Few things infuriate Tropers/BTIsaac more than these people. Well, at the very least weeaboos. Just mentioning them is enough to trigger homicidal rage. Well, on the internet at least. Oh. And there's also {{Clannad}}, but that's a different story.

Sad truh for most polish teenagers,especialy those who call themselfes 'Skate'(Skejt) and live in suburb 'Blocks'.'Skejt' is not someone who listen to punk rock and does pro-skating,Skejt is someone who listen to polish and american HipHop,tries to be so 'n***' and boasts how Snoop Dog & co are so cool.But I dare you to be actuall black and live in their neighbourhood.And yeah,they also do pro-skating

This troper has a cousin who can't stop generally talking like a stereotypical Black guy, usually with a joking/mocking tone. We're Chinese. This somehow doesn't strike him as playing to the stereotype that Chinese hate Blacks.

Half of the boys in my high school tried to act like this, even though they were white or asian.

Because I'm a Juggalo and I hang around other Juggalos and wiggers, I sometimes talk like this. It can be rather disorienting to hear me talk, actually. One minute I sound like a Harvard Professor discussing society's dysfunction and the inner workings of the human mind, the next I'm dropping cluster f-bombs and talking like I'm from the inner city(I even punctuate my sentences with "nigga" several times), the next I'm talking like a stoner/skater/fratboy stereotype (replacing "nigga" and "bitch" with "dude", "man", and "brah" ), and then suddenly it's back to quiet intellectualism. I'm not putting up a front, exactly, because all of those ways of speaking feel natural to me. However, I know that each of them are a product of trying to relate to different types of friends all combining together to make something....interesting, to say the least. I have artsy friends, so I'll speak in melodramatic prose to conform to their pretentious stabs at this decaying society. I have stoner friends, so I talk like I'm really lazy and hip, dude. I have Juggalo friends, so I bust out with our slang like a cold bottle of Faygo to make the other ninjas in my fam feel at ease, and maybe score some neden from a fine-ass Juggalette. I have wigger friends, so I roll up wit the ebonics and the shit y'all see in those rap videos, nigga. I have educated friends, so I'll adjust my vernacular to be proper and concise in order to convey my thoughts in a method that suits their high standards and allows them to accept me into their fold as one of their own. The difference between me and some lame kid trying to be cool with everyone is that I tend to unconsciously combine all of these into a gloriously musical and crazy as shit language that no fuckin' wigger or dumbass yankee could ever hope to achieve simply by adjusting to the superficial facets of each of these beautiful subcultures. Peace the fuck out, homies. I hope you all someday see the unique necessity of each person's method of speech.

I tried this once, and ended up calling a white person the N-word. My little brother now jokes that I'm racist.

(My family is white) My little sister talked kind of like a stereotypical black person for a while in third grade. No idea why, except that the school has more blacks than whites.

I, Prime Evil, am this and am not this ''at the same time.'' I go to Chicago State University, where I've picked up a lot of Black History but none of the ebonics. It helps that almost nobody else uses ebonics there. But ye gods, junior high was terrible for this. I've spent ten whole years not knowing what "OPP" meant, and I only just found out now. Oi, oi, oi...

This troper lives in Vancouver. She still can't decide whether it's hilarious or sad how many Asian kids, in an effort to shed their immigrant backgrounds, try to act like middle-class white kids - many of whom are trying to act like black kids from the projects. Note that in Canada, most black people one encounters are likely immigrants themselves, from the Caribbean. However, given how Canadians generally exist in a sort of cultural identity limbo, it's hard to blame them.

This troper usually isn't like this, really. I'm white, half-British, half-Irish, and am relatively articulate when I'm not talking so quickly that I stumble over words. Unfortunately... you know that term "homes" that you call someone you're close to. As in "homeboy?" I mistook it for "Holmes" and frequently used it in a snarky manner when people I knew pointed out something obvious. After getting one too many strange looks from my friends (many of whom are black), I explained it, to which they collectively groaned and explained it to me. Embarrassing? Incredibly. Enough so to stop me from using it in the same manner? Not quite.

I am Russian, but of multiple origins (got English noble-ish blood in there, too). My English language is distinctly British.

There was an embarassing moment where the guy sitting next to me was saying that he could get expelled because he had "homies" in another school. We'd been talking for some time, and I finally got fed up and said "You don't have ''homies'', you're ''white!''" I was mortified and apologized when my head caught up to my mouth. He burst out laughing.

This Troper was browsing YouTube one day and came across this video. Not only is it MadeOfWin, it’s probably this guy's CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Needless to say, I want to work there now...