Kenji Yoshino

Yes, absolutely. And one of the things that, like FDR, she did was to carefully orchestrate her speaking voice. So when she was first standing for prime minister, her handlers came to her and said, you need to go into voice coaching. And what they were doing was saying to her, look, you speak with a working class accent, so you need to posh up your voice, you're a grocer's daughter.

And so they told her that the voice coaching would allow her to lower her voice so that she would have more executive presence. She dutifully went into the voice coaching and emerged on the other side with a more patrician, resonant voice. And her voice became one of the most distinctive aspects of her, where when you hear that voice, you hear the voice of authority.

And so they told her that the voice coaching would allow her to lower her voice so that she would have more executive presence. She dutifully went into the voice coaching and emerged on the other side with a more patrician, resonant voice. And her voice became one of the most distinctive aspects of her, where when you hear that voice, you hear the voice of authority.

And so they told her that the voice coaching would allow her to lower her voice so that she would have more executive presence. She dutifully went into the voice coaching and emerged on the other side with a more patrician, resonant voice. And her voice became one of the most distinctive aspects of her, where when you hear that voice, you hear the voice of authority.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Exactly. So here we have a second example of someone who is not trying to hide who they are, but is trying to sort of manage or soften or engage in impression management because she knows that she has a quality that is an outsider quality that people are not going to accept as easily in someone who occupies a position of power.

Exactly. So here we have a second example of someone who is not trying to hide who they are, but is trying to sort of manage or soften or engage in impression management because she knows that she has a quality that is an outsider quality that people are not going to accept as easily in someone who occupies a position of power.

Exactly. So here we have a second example of someone who is not trying to hide who they are, but is trying to sort of manage or soften or engage in impression management because she knows that she has a quality that is an outsider quality that people are not going to accept as easily in someone who occupies a position of power.

Yeah, so Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Banji, and he changed his name when he began his theatrical career because he thought that his birth name would limit the roles that he would be able to acquire. So the irony is that he became Ben Kingsley, but then also went back to playing Gandhi. So there's a kind of Russian doll nesting quality to this.

Yeah, so Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Banji, and he changed his name when he began his theatrical career because he thought that his birth name would limit the roles that he would be able to acquire. So the irony is that he became Ben Kingsley, but then also went back to playing Gandhi. So there's a kind of Russian doll nesting quality to this.

Yeah, so Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Banji, and he changed his name when he began his theatrical career because he thought that his birth name would limit the roles that he would be able to acquire. So the irony is that he became Ben Kingsley, but then also went back to playing Gandhi. So there's a kind of Russian doll nesting quality to this.

But the thing that he has in common with the other two figures you were describing is, again, he understood that it could be career consequential for him to present himself as his full authentic self. And he modulated aspects of his identity because he knew exactly what the culture needed from him. And he assimilated to that culture.

But the thing that he has in common with the other two figures you were describing is, again, he understood that it could be career consequential for him to present himself as his full authentic self. And he modulated aspects of his identity because he knew exactly what the culture needed from him. And he assimilated to that culture.

But the thing that he has in common with the other two figures you were describing is, again, he understood that it could be career consequential for him to present himself as his full authentic self. And he modulated aspects of his identity because he knew exactly what the culture needed from him. And he assimilated to that culture.

Absolutely. And they tend to be sort of more popular names that are in the semantic stock. And so you tend to see actors changing their names in the direction of something that will be more kind of broadly intelligible, more memorable, more part of the semantic stock of the country that they're performing in.

Absolutely. And they tend to be sort of more popular names that are in the semantic stock. And so you tend to see actors changing their names in the direction of something that will be more kind of broadly intelligible, more memorable, more part of the semantic stock of the country that they're performing in.

Absolutely. And they tend to be sort of more popular names that are in the semantic stock. And so you tend to see actors changing their names in the direction of something that will be more kind of broadly intelligible, more memorable, more part of the semantic stock of the country that they're performing in.

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