When it comes to Californian Dialect I notice myself saying 'hella' a lot when it comes to describing things. Like, "that movie was hella tight." or "It's hella hot today." I also say things like 'tight', or 'dude' to my friends a lot.
Well if you think about it, when England was the power of the world, the people who had the say and who were most in power and control were that of nobility. Today, those people are the people involved in the entertainment industry (movie, music, television, ect). Through those forms a media a a super peer is developed. As we grow up we are influenced by our peers (our family, friends, and whomever we might consider our peers). I remember the article talking about how African American talk takes up a lot of the slang or Californian Dialect, and it makes sense since a lot of teenagers and younger people listen to rap and think it is cool. They want to be like the rappers with cars, money, and sexy girls. I am not saying that everyone is like this but enough people are to form sort of a majority group. California is a movie powerhouse, it also has a huge factor in importing and exporting goods. We are in a sense brainwashed to think that California is cool through shows on MTV and different movies setting up and making a picture of what 'cool' is in a sense. Through this and many other developing factors we have come to think of California as 'the place to be.' With it's warm weather in most coastal cities, and its intrigue to the beautiful and rich, no wonder it has a huge influence on language, and the people not just in America but worldwide.
I agree with your central messaging about cultural existing in modern society. Yes, California today the most popular place not just in our country also around the world. Ideological propaganda has a great influence on people. Therefore, it is not surprisingly, that people, especially teenagers try to take as much as possible from those artificial developed phenomena. Idols and cult are the most powerful tools for interaction. Therefore, why we try to use language of our famous stars and try to act as they are in our usual life. So that is why Californian dialect has so huge popularization.
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