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They say I have an accent <rant> ติดต่อทีมงาน

First off, I'm Thai who was born and raised in Thailand and moved to the US when I was a teenager.

I'm fully bilingual and I've lost my Thai accent when I speak English but occasionally some people I talk to can't hear what I'm saying and instead of asking me to say it again or speak up or whatever, they would just blame me for having an accent when I already know that I don't and I know they're just hard of hearing and I'd be like "Err..I have an accent? Wtf are you talking about?"; and I know they're just saying that because I'm Asian and they'd expect me to have an accent anyway

I hate it when people tell me I have an accent when I sound just like any Asian Americans who live here their entire lives. I know I don't sound white either but if they have to tell me I have an accent, then everybody has an accent too and that's what I believe because in America, there are black, Hispanic accents and some regional accents like Blooklyn, Boston, midwest, Wisconsin, southern, dirty sourthern.

I used to record my own voice reading long sentences or talking about random stuff and listen to it and I don't hear anything wrong with it. I'm from California and my teachers say I speak just like a young Californian for my age. Most of my friends are Asian and they sound just like me.

I think it's just a racial stereotype of us Asians to have to look funny and talk weird for certain people due to exaggeration in the media. I also observe that the people that make fun of me or comment on my accent have ever barely been exposed to the Asians or its culture because they're from the middle of nowhere or the deep south and I can even make fun of them back if I really wanted to. For instance, some black folks can't even say "ask", instead, they say "ax". Most of them talk Ebonics or some vernacular form of English and they can't even speak proper English or pronounce big words.

Again, it's so disrespectful and ignorant for them to judge Asians or any particular race to act, behave or sound in a certain way when some of them among the groups are not necessarily doing that.

You can comment either in Thai or English.

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