People from which country can speak English with a less pronounced foreign accent?

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I've seen many people from China and Japan talking in English on TV and thought that they were actually American, because they had little to no accent

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A lot of upper-class and people in the media in the Philippines speak with kind of an American accent. They kinda sound like Latinos speaking English


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Originally Posted by PhenomenalAJ

It's more because people don't want to be thought of as "unsophisticated". In America, there's a certain stigma attached to having a black accent or a heavy Southern one. Kids also spend a lot more time watching TV and end up sounding more like TV stars then their parents. I do agree its a shame that America has lost so many accents. The kind of posh American upper class accent is an example, like the way Kelsey Grammer speaks. I've never met any young person speak that way but I see it mostly in old movies and I imagine it was quite common then.

I agree, but they don't want to be thought of "sophisticated" either lest they're thought of as "gay". It's the homogeneous vanilla middle ground everyone aspires to. Tocqueville was a visionary.