Coño Language

Mostly among the youth of prestigious colleges today have been using the coño language as part of their daily lives. From the upper class themselves, the ones who are not raised in the country and can't speak the vernacular fluently, often not of pure Filipino blood down to the middle class, the ones who are born in the Philippines, can speak the vernacular fluently, yet are raised by their yaya's wrong grammatical English which is affecting their knowledge of it since their stage of language acquisition; Coño language has been used in conversing with different people. Thus, usage of coño language, English with a mix of Filipino words, seemed to gain a sense of social stature and class, gave birth to the trend of "coño".

There is no definite explanation of the history of speaking Coño English or Coño language in the Philippines. One theory states that during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, some members of the upper class caste wanted to be accepted into mainstream in Manila and therefore tried injecting Tagalog in their sentences.

According to www.understandingprejudice.org, one cause of prejudice and discrimination is the outgroup homogeneity bias.

" In the language of social psychology, an "ingroup" is a group to which someone belongs, and an "outgroup" is a group to which the person does not belong (hence, one person's ingroup may be another person's outgroup, and vice versa). Research on the outgroup homogeneity effect has found that when it comes to attitudes, values, personality traits, and other characteristics, people tend to see outgroup members as more alike than ingroup members. As a result, outgroup members are at risk of being seen as interchangeable or expendable, and they are more likely to be stereotyped. This perception of sameness holds true regardless of whether the outgroup is another race, religion, nationality, college major, or other naturally occurring group (Linville, 1998).[7]

It is believed that prior to World War II, Spanish was the predominant language used in the homes of the upper class families but it drastically changed when the Americans granted Filipinos independence. The Americans were seen as liberators and the upper-class families focused on making English the major language of their children. Some families still conversed in Spanish while at home but it was inevitable to be influenced by the English language when the schools where their children are going to have made English the primary mode of instruction. By the time these children enter universities in Manila, they had to contend with the fact that people are not as confident and comfortable in expressing themselves in English. They were required to speak Tagalog most of the time and speak in English only when required to do so. The coños stood out because of their features and they sometimes face alienation from

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