What I don't get is that, to Americans, a lot of accents sound appealing. Chicks dig dudes with British accents, Spanish accents, French accents, Australian accents, German accents, Nigerian accents... We're pretty equal-opportunity around here so long as it involves an accent from somewhere else.
You never hear someone saying, "Your gringo accent is HOT. I love the way you hicks mispronounce Spanish/French/German/Nigerian words." The only people in the world who seem amused by the American accent are the British, and I think they just enjoy making fun of how frequently we say "like" and "dude" and how we charmingly misspell words by writing things like "realz." Actually, it's my friend from Spain who does that. See? We're so ghetto here we can corrupt even the emigrants from civilized first-world countries. If the queen of England moved here she's drop the royal "we" in favor of the redneck "ya'll" in just a matter of months.
I feel a little better after venting.
I feel like a member of a lowbrow third-rate civilization with only military might to proof our worth, but better nonetheless.
