We're in 2020 and, fortunately, more people have focused further on the major issue of distinct types of discrimination in the past few decades. People around the world are slowly becoming aware that we are all different. However, judging people for the way they speak is still common. Non-Native and Native speakers sometimes are commented on their speaking ability or the accents. Individuals comment without even realizing that they hurt the sentiments of someone. However, discrimination has more complex implications than hurt: people can feel isolated and alienated and might get prone to psychological problems or difficulties.

Language discrimination occurs when an individual is treated differently because of his mother tongue or other language abilities. Linguistic discrimination is an unfair treatment for the way a person speaks. It means that individual language usage features, such as phonetics and accents, modality, syntax, and vocabulary size are not tolerated. Based on how someone speaks, people may form social status, education level, personal traits, and other characteristics, leading to non-native speakers being marginalized.

Many courts and government agencies consider language discrimination to be a form of discrepancy based on national origin, which is prohibited by federal and state law across all countries. Scientists assume that people may not accept the way others speak because of how our mind functions towards foreign accents. This fact does not, however, give us the right to discriminate. We rarely care about different accents, even if we can distinguish them clearly.

Situations leading to linguistic discrimination:

• The Identity and Accent of Speakers.

• The standard view of language that causes existing inequalities to continue and does not take into account identities and cultural differences.

• The rights of the minority language

• Speakers of ethnic minorities are lessened, though they can be trustworthy people in their own cultures.

• Cohesion during interaction and consistency.

• Stereotyping Languages

• The style of communication

• Expectations and perceptions.

• Lack of communication.

• Reminding of one's ethnocentrism.

• Discrimination on achievements.

• Personalized cultural differences.

One can avoid linguistic discrimination by:

• Taking advantage of their knowledge about diversity.

• To have a methodology to better understand how cultural and social knowledge is translated into language. Understanding that various accents are not language deficiencies, but the effect of the language characteristics of one language over the other.

• The knowledge that differentiates between cultures in communication styles

• Consideration of the fact that cross-cultural communication is important during interaction that involves different frames and schemes.

• Focused communication on inter-ethnical backgrounds.

• Continue to work together to resolve issues across language and cultural borders.

• Understanding emigration, religious origins, and the needs of ethnic minorities.

Considering all this, it is worth being tolerant of people who try to speak the language and even helping them in the best way one can. Most of the non-native individuals will be willing to learn something new and enhance their speaking abilities. Adjusting to a new language is neither straightforward nor quick, and errors certainly occur. But please remember that there are many reasons, not just language incompetence, for errors. Concerning accents, some sounds are just hard to pronounce, because a person has never used them before. There is much more to praise and genuinely help in this case than discrimination and mock. We must appreciate the effort, be patient, and help when we meet a person who is less fluent in the language. No one should be ashamed, but rather proud to be able to learn, work, and navigate life in another language and society.