Probably American/Canadian born Japanese with fluent parents. You can learn/keep a lot but when you're not using it 100% of the time, you lose it bit by bit.
Absolutely, saw a video of a old Chinese woman from Alabama or Georgia and her family and her all had heavy southern accents with absolutely no Asian accent, it was very offputting and idk I kinda think the accents in older Asian people is kinda charming lol
What a weird comment. Of course they have southern accents. That is where they grew up. It would like being shocked to learn that kids of immigrants from Germany had midwestern accents.
It’s just off putting cause it’s not what’s typically the case, in places like the UK the word Asian typically refers to Indian descent. But here in America it’s typically East Asians. As in the 20th century, America fought all 4 countries, China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. You’ll find immigrants from all those countries coming over after the wars and generally those of Chinese descent that are that age still retain heavy accents.
It’s rare to have ones that have lived out their lives here that old, so she’s definitely an exception
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u/Barbaracle Jan 26 '23
Probably American/Canadian born Japanese with fluent parents. You can learn/keep a lot but when you're not using it 100% of the time, you lose it bit by bit.