Code Switchiing frm Tannen

I remember African American students who did a lot of code switching, especially when they went to high schools, colleges and private schools where the population was larger and less like the neighborhood elementary and middle schools. At that time there was standard english and the neighborhood slang. Then we moved to "ebonics" used primarily by African Americans. Now, race is not necessarily the determiner of whether you use the current language. In the malls and on Utube, you see teens and young adults wearing the same clothes, talking the same language...perhaps technology has made it easier for everyone to see and hear how and what everyone is saying.