(I) Children, like adults, use three visible cues – race,
gender and age – to arrange their social world. (II) The
next step might be to see whether living in multilingual
countries can change this early tendency. (III) They
prefer to make friends with kids similar to them based
on these traits. (IV) New research, however, shows that
language accents may be equally important in guiding
youngsters’ social decisions. (V) In fact, accents may be
even more meaningful than race in signifying whether
someone belongs in your social group