Boston-born Hillary “Hilaria” Baldwin, the wife of actor Alec Baldwin, defended her Spanish accent as “code-switching,” and claimed “The whole world was mean to me.”
“You know what it’s called? Code-switching,” Hilaria said on Sunday’s episode of TLC’s reality series, The Baldwins.
Alec Baldwin’s wife went on to reveal that she only recently learned what the term “code-switching” means, because “the whole world was mean to me.”
“I had to learn about it because the whole world was mean to me, and so I had to learn it. It’s code-switching,” she said.
Notably, “code-switching” refers to when a person changes the way they typically speak in order to fit in with whomever they are around at the time. This can transpire as someone deviating from their typical language, accent, dialects, tones of voice, or mannerisms, among other aspects.
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