Linguistic profiling used against Katrina victims</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Linguistic profiling used against Katrina victims"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Linguistic,profiling,used,against,Katrina,victims"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">19-09-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Linguistic profiling used against Katrina victims</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Missouri, USA (SL): Professor John Baugh has been researching the differences between white and black citizens in finding new housing. His work follows closely with a National Fair Housing Alliance study that found that 66 percent of the time, white test callers were treated more favorably than the black test callers. According to their findings, white applicants received housing related offers that black applicants were never offered. Instead, black callers were often bombarded with extra administrative fees. Baugh calls this phenomenon "linguistic profiling," which can be thought of as the auditory equivalent of racial profiling, with one important exception: linguistic differences are not based solely on race, but also on gender identity and region identity. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.studlife.com/news/2006/09/18/News/Katrina.Victims.Face.Linguistic.Discrimination-2282064.shtml " target="blank">www.studlife.com/news/2006/09/18/News/Katrina.Victims.Face.Linguistic.Discrimination-2282064.shtml </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show