Emulating voices, Mockery or Flattery

[Gomendosi]

So I did find myself wondering if anybody has experienced this, you emulate voices and it changes people around you.

The other day I told someone that I had had a phone call and that it was from an Indian fellow, as I related what he had said in my Indian accent the other person was laughing their head off and that's fine, but occasionally you will get stares or somebody will go tsk, tsk.
I have a few different voices I emulate and I mostly know who knows I am not being racist or whatever when I do them but occasionally I forget.

It is actually one of a range of vocal stims I have, to resort to a voice I grew up hearing, as a child if things got too much I would pretend to be somebody else and mimic an accent I had heard, this would allow me to escape from people even though I was still technically there.

So do you do voices and accents, its how Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny started out, do you think it is still allowable these days to do accents or just with people that know you.
Do you go around in character or is it just a few words or sentences, and have you ever felt you should talk like a particular person does, so they understand you easier?

 

[CryptidUrsid]

I admit I do it a lot. To me it isn't a racial thing because I emulate voices of white people just as equally as everyone else (really depends on who I speak with on that particular day). I have many different voices for different environments, moods, interactions. Total master of disguise or chameleon.

 

[Ereth]

Because I aspire to be a voice actress, I try to mimic voices I hear in cartoons or on the radio. But I don't try to emulate people. People have done that to me in an attempt to insult me, and I'd rather not make anyone else feel like crap, even if it's not intended.