Are you prejudiced toward accents?

are you, or have you ever been ? I once had a bit of an aversion toward the heavy Dublin accent. I used to feel a bit self conscious and embarrassed by my father's accent that he inherited from his side of the family, and thus handed down to some of my half brothers. when he would talk to me in front of people outside the family who spoke in a different way or collect me from school the self consciousness would hit it's peak as in my school there were mostly flat ''normal'' accents. I would usually prefer if my mother went to my parent teacher meetings as she had one of these flat accents that wasn't over the top, and I felt she better ''represented'' me, in my naïve ignorance. I come from the type of family where going to college would be seen as ''posh'' and having notions, like'' oooh look at you and your business degree (I don't study business)''. nobody I know of either side of the family studied at third level, most of them barely scraping second.

so I used to have a bit of prejudice toward the ''ah jaysus howya, wats the storee, wats the craic, gis a bleedin bag o chips'' kind of accent. I myself don't speak that way, at least not to the extent of my father and my relatives of his side where you can blatantly tell they are northsiders.

as I got older I grew more informed and tolerant of different ways of speaking and found that if you just listen to people and what they're saying, often they are speaking perfect sense, regardless of accent. its just expressed differently. why do you think there is a bit of a stigma against the heavy Dublin accent? is it to do with perceptions that it sounds inarticulate, uneducated, scummy etc. are you yourself a fan of the Dublin accent?

another thing, taking it all into account, are you proud of where you come from?