unspoken42
I personally hate it when americans say that we have an "Accent." My question is; Which one? We live in a country where there are as many accents as people! (Slight overstatement but you get my point!)
To be fair, everyone has an accent....
obviously the context you're describing is different, but still. If I said "British people have an accent," technically there's nothing wrong there. I never said it had to be the same one....
razz
The fact that you mention this makes me doubt
you'd say the same thing about Americans, but I'm sure there are plenty of kids from the U.K. and elsewhere in the English-speaking world that say the exact same thing about us. I haven't heard it happen much, (except for when I visited with a group a few years ago, a girl from my homestay family did say we had an accent, and there were kids from Wisconsin with heavy accents as well as kids from North Carolina both with Southern accents and very neutral ones) as most of the time when I hear anyone from outside the U.S. mentioning accents it is a comedian that DOES them so they know what they are talking about. lol
I get what you're saying though. It is very frustrating. I personally hate that my country tends to be so ignorant. There are people in all countries who are just apathetic about any culture but their own, but I won't deny that it is disproportionally bad in America. I try to reconcile people on both sides, because it is something I care about, but most people just don't care. I try to remember that I just can't expect them to.
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