Could not agree more with you, Kaiser. Some of my friends in college got a boatload of that because we went to school in an affluent area outside of Philadelphia. Several of them were from Africa, including one guy from Zimbabwe.
His accent was absolutely beautiful, but difficult to describe: a cross between Jamaican and high English. It was interesting when we would go out, because you could see people sizing him up and making judgements, and then he would speak and people completely had to shift every idea they had just formed.
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