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The Currency You're Born With: What Bourdieu Discovered About Language as Capital
The Currency You're Born WithWhat Bourdieu discovered about language as capitalTwo equally qualified candidates sit the same interview. Only one of them was born speaking the accent the panel already trusts. This episode is about what Pierre Bourdieu called linguistic capital — language as an inherited asset that converts into hiring decisions, promotions, and credibility, whether or not anyone in the room ever calls it capital at all.What's covered:Why linguistic capital is inherited rather than earned, and why it only works while it stays invisibleThe trap of personal explanation: why "more…
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