'What's up with that white voice?' The tricky art of linguistic code switching

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In high school, a friend told En Low that she used a "white girl voice" during a class presentation. The observation took Low, the daughter of Malaysian Chinese immigrants, by surprise - it was the same bubbly voice she used while taking phone orders at her parents' carryout restaurant in Northern...

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