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@BeansRobson

AI Enthusiast, Software Developer, Christian, Curious Sapiosexual, I write when I'm bored...and if you cut my veins, I bleed Liverpool RED. CIO @vanadiumtechzw

Zimbabwe เข้าร่วม Ocak 2013
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson·
Some deem it divine retribution - a penance for rebellion. Others, a cosmic duel between good and evil. Yet the enigma persists: Why does the battle endure? Two millennia post-Calvary, the faithful still grapple. The battlefield eludes sight, yet its echoes reverberate. Our strategy? Our leader? The truth crystallizes: We fight not against flesh and blood, but against unseen principalities. Our battleground? The human heart - the theater of choices. Our strategy? The armor of God - truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, the Word. Our leader? The One who conquered death - the risen Christ. robsonbeans.com/2020/05/28/the…
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Styles Mubaira
Styles Mubaira@Fgstyles7·
@BeansRobson I ain't changing my accent to fit in with whatever perception a random person might have of me. If it's a service they are rendering me, that means l am paying and if they default on that then the buck stops with them.
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson·
The Zimbabwean accent in a foreign land is almost a class signal. Lose it and you may get better service. Keep it and you get assumptions. Some of us code-switch without thinking. That adaptation is survival, not shame. Answer yourself honestly. Do you modify your accent or how you present yourself to avoid being identified as Zimbabwean in a foreign land? I say, there is a dignity question buried deep in the accent conversation. The day you stop changing your voice is the day you decide your origin is not something to manage. Most of us haven't reached that day yet.
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☯️♻️T!no$£📚@tino_cash3·
@BeansRobson It behoves us to change those stereotypes or perspectives. Trying to change the accent to blend in doesn't help the cause. Does it?
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X🦓🦓🦓☻️☻️☻️@JShepherdBaT007·
Go on a Zimbabwean spaces pano.🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿 You will find your answer therein Robbo.🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿 Ini ndino taura chikaranga cheMberengwa necheMberengwa.🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿 Rurimi gwaMai zvomene.🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿 Decades in the diaspora, my Zim accent is my pride. My native peers respect me for it.🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿 🤣😅😂
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson

The Zimbabwean accent in a foreign land is almost a class signal. Lose it and you may get better service. Keep it and you get assumptions. Some of us code-switch without thinking. That adaptation is survival, not shame. Answer yourself honestly. Do you modify your accent or how you present yourself to avoid being identified as Zimbabwean in a foreign land? I say, there is a dignity question buried deep in the accent conversation. The day you stop changing your voice is the day you decide your origin is not something to manage. Most of us haven't reached that day yet.

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BaTapy@BrianMutangara·
@BeansRobson SRB here. Accent hard coded. Unable to change.
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thecomforter@Mdu_ka1990·
@BeansRobson Well in SA once you start speaking in English with that heavy Shona accent nobody takes you seriously and for Zimbos it's the Shonas who tend to have a heavy accent.
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Kishon Gladman Kativhu@kudzieKG·
@BeansRobson I probably have 2/3 curated accents that I have learnt to engage when purpose comes, FYI it was a friend who raised this after I forgot to switch off my work accent, dzakangoti eeeeeeh asekuru bho here I knew what he meant. 😂
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson·
@tino_cash3 Which shows the accent itself isn’t the problem. It’s what certain accents are made to mean in certain spaces.
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☯️♻️T!no$£📚@tino_cash3·
@BeansRobson It helped to open a very important conversation. There were Polish, Argentine & Nigerian parents who had spoken in their accents. They don’t have modify their accents. I understand the audibility and clarity argument. I am at a level where I don’t need to manage that.
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Tindo@VividThoughts_1·
@BeansRobson On this one I beg to disagree. My accent is not going anywhere. This accent is my struggle. My identity. It’s a part of me. I’m not sorry, everyone…work, business or anything is gonna have to deal with it
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson·
@PetersonTengen2 Yes, I could have. And the stats would still be correct. There is a reason why others are engaging the substance of the argument and you are fixated on the specific figure.
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Peterson
Peterson@PetersonTengen2·
@BeansRobson I guess you also could have said remittances are above $100.00 since $3.4 Billion is also above $100.
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson·
Remittances to Zimbabwe exceed $1.5B annually. Foreign direct investment is under $400M. Meaning the diaspora is the real foreign investor. The government taxes remittances (downstream transactions) instead of enabling them. Should Zimbabwe create a formal diaspora investment bond or tax incentive to channel remittances into productive investment? Countries like India and Israel built diaspora bonds into national development strategy. Zimbabwe treats its diaspora as a cash machine while offering them no political representation.
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Robson Beans 🇿🇼@BeansRobson·
Exactly right on the current state of affairs. The bulk of remittances are consumed, not invested, because survival comes first. However, some Zimbabweans in the diaspora are buying cars, building homes, purchasing stands. The high-skilled diaspora is already investing. The policy question is whether the government creates vehicles that channel that further, or whether it keeps treating the diaspora as a remittance ATM while rolling out the red carpet for Chinese FDI.
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ZebraKing
ZebraKing@Manyerenyete·
@BeansRobson @dzovani3 The majority of remittances go to fulfill immidiate needs for family. It is money that can't be repurporsed.Remember the majority of diasporians are low skills & usually dont have free funds.Maybe that will change as more highly skilled Zimbos migrate.
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@GoppazZim1@goppazzim1·
@BeansRobson Fair point Rob and well meaning. Zim Diaspora is not allowed to Vote. How can they entrust their money in people that strip them of their right to Vote. @bla_bidza
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Hosoro@Hosoro1·
@BeansRobson My accent is the only identity left on me to signal my roots. I have refused to have it taken away
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Changara@_changara_·
@BeansRobson Apa varungu vanokuseka sei negweseri when you code switch kkkk
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