Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Is this thread serious? Do you not know what a regional accent is? Or did you just not know non-whites can also have accents? So weird...
I am solly that we Asians speak like evelyone else.
And conversely, plenty of people outside of the southern states have what most people think of as southern accents. Just visit a small town in the US Pacific Northwest.Cocaloch said:Plenty of white and black people from the south do not possess the
what people think of as the "standard" southern accent.
Yup..folks just pick up the accents they're around.
Is this thread serious? Do you not know what a regional accent is? Or did you just not know non-whites can also have accents? So weird...
Not necessarily. For instance, my sister has a thick Russian accent despite having lived on the Gulf Coast since she was 4.
Oh, know. Not speaking in absolutes or anything. Just saying this isn't something that's amazing by any stretch lol..
No shit? That doesn't make it surprising that they can have southern accents after living for generations in the South........Not necessarily. For instance, my sister has a thick Russian accent despite having lived on the Gulf Coast since she was 4.
Clearly regional accents do not always override other sorts of accents and linguistic pressures.
Why wouldn't it? Unless no Chinese live there, why wouldn't "such a community" exist?Amazed is a bit strong, but I think it's at least somewhat interesting that such a community exists.
No shit? That doesn't make it surprising that they can have southern accents after living for generations in the South........
That means it's not exactly a given? I was raised in roughly that area and I don't have anything similar to the accent, which I know because people feel the need to tell me about it multiple times a day pretty much every day.
:lolMy wife, son, and I moved from the Pacific Northwest to Kentucky for two years, and we all started picking up certain regional dialect/accent stuff pretty quickly. It was frightening.
Why wouldn't it? Unless no Chinese live there, why wouldn't "such a community" exist?
I'm not quite sure why this is prejudiced. Minority communities trend towards either a unique accent or more neutral national accents.
Moreover there are more things that go into picking up one's accent than just location. We just tend to associate them with places. The assumption that would make this racist probably comes from a misunderstanding of what accents are more than anything else.
Plenty of white and black people from the south do not possess what people think of as the "standard" southern accent.
nothing is a given, but the implications of this thread:
"why don't they sound like I expect, mind blown?!"
is the probem
My wife, son, and I moved from the Pacific Northwest to Kentucky for two years, and we all started picking up certain regional dialect/accent stuff pretty quickly. It was frightening.
I think for some people it's because the lack of representation in media and a lot less travel.Why is this trippy? Accents form from where you grow up and learn language or interact with language over a long period of time.
No shit? That doesn't make it surprising that they can have southern accents after living for generations in the South........
I think that people are being quick to attach racist undertones to various posts, when in reality most people just haven't met any Chinese Americans with American roots that deep.
They had me at "Southern-style Chinese food".
Is this thread serious? Do you not know what a regional accent is? Or did you just not know non-whites can also have accents? So weird...
That fried rice looked glorious.
I grew up with the kids of the Vietnamese refugees that fled Vietnam after the war, many of which settled in Texas. Their kids sounded just like we did be the time we were in high school. Tranh Nguyen had a stronger Texas drawl than I did, because I'd spent years growing up in Louisiana and Tennessee, which had reduced my original accent to a slightly southern-inflected midwest accent.
Not watched the video, but I too am surprised people have accents of their locale. Especially those kooky chinese. They should speak chinese.
Its about as weird as a white guy with a chinese accent. In other words yes its weird.Is this thread serious? Do you not know what a regional accent is? Or did you just not know non-whites can also have accents? So weird...