Just A Thought
You know what I’d like to see more of in my neighborhood? Asian people with British accents. That would be so awesome!
In high school we had a German exchange student who was Chinese! It was so crazy to hear her accent. Talk about confounding people’s expectations. I bet it was shitty for her in Sacramento because people used to ask me if I spoke English. Imagine if they asked her and she answered “Yes” sounding like Arnold Schwarzenegger. How confused would those people be?
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