This is messing with my mind, it's quite cool to see though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrqGHr5zE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrqGHr5zE
Those accents are blowing my mind too
Why is this trippy? Accents form from where you grow up and learn language or interact with language over a long period of time.This is fucking trippy
Why is this trippy? Accents form from where you grow up and learn language or interact with language over a long period of time.
That's nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEm2HoswmgA
Chinese man speaking Patois.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YW3TmlslGo
Chinese Jamaicans.
My father's best friend is a Chinese Jamaican and my grandfather's father was a Chinese Jamaican.
Indeed. But I guess it would be a shock to some people who never been to other places.
That's been my experience, as far as my interactions with Asians in the US. This video is trippy and making me nostalgic.I'm Asian American and was born in California but spent most of my years in NC. I lived there for 21 years before moving to Georgia this year, although I might just move right back next year. Point is that from my perspective, I've never seen another Hmong speak with anything other than a basic American accent whether they were from California, the Midwest or the South.
I think for the most part we all sound the same because even to this day the ones born and raised in America stick to our own. We all learn the basic accent that most Americans are known for from foreigners for. And since we still don't interact too much with non-Asians I think that's why despite living in certain regions we don't develop the local accent. Just my perspective since that's how my generation and I grew up and I don't see it differ too much with the newer generations.
That's nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEm2HoswmgA
Chinese man speaking Patois.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YW3TmlslGo
Chinese Jamaicans.
My father's best friend is a Chinese Jamaican and my grandfather's father was a Chinese Jamaican.
i think old asian people speaking perfect english just kind of throws you off. happens to me quite a bit when i'm in japanese communities around los angeles
Why is this trippy? Accents form from where you grow up and learn language or interact with language over a long period of time.
My friend was born in Costa Rica and another had close ties to Peru. There's a huuuuuge Chinese population in Latin/South America because a lot of them fled overseas for work or for peace.
Same thing I remember in North Carolina. Lifelong residents got the accent regardless of their ethnicity. Just how language works.
I am solly that we Asians speak like evelyone else.
I think it's the fact that large-scale Asian immigration didn't really kick off until about the time in history where most regional American accents started dying out that makes this seem strange. You expect either a foreign accent or standard American, but for these people who arrived as part of the smaller wave of Asian immigration a century earlier, and to a place as isolated as the rural South, of course they picked up the local dialect.
I think I've heard similar things about Vietnamese immigrants in Gulf fishing communities, since a lot of them came over as war refugees and a lot of their skills were most applicable to those communities, so that's where they settled and picked up the Southern accent as well.
Immediately who I thought of. What an interesting childhood he must have had.
It's like a half step away from saying they are so eloquent.
A very informative video; thanks for sharing. I see this is part 2. Where's part 1?
There was a thread about the same video a few days ago, but I can't find the link.
It's on the channel and is a series about Chinese (food) in America rather than about Chinese in the south. There's three last I checked.
Same thing I remember in North Carolina. Lifelong residents got the accent regardless of their ethnicity. Just how language works.