Journal 58: Free Write

OMG I can't believe I missed out on the class today. It was a study hall!
Mr. McCool I didn't mean to be absent today; I had to get up to Taipei this morning to get stuff done.

Ok so recently I noticed people have these shirts with the word Hahvahd on'em to mock ppl from Boston area at their accent. Although I don like ppl mocking at each other's accent but this Hahvahd thing is really creative. Haha so I started looking up different accents both inside and outside of America. People actually pronounce pecan as pecun? Also I found myself sometimes say either as eether while using eyether in different situations. I think it depends on the words before and after it, or it's just me that I'm so special.
When I started learning English, I realized I had weird pronunciation and intonation and I thought that was a bad thing, but then I got some friends from Singapore and I'm surprised by their attitude toward accents and their pride of their own accent as their identity or something like that I guess.
　 And then at some point I also found that people mock other's accents because they are just not familiar with them; it's their problems, so why be ashamed? I really do feel that people should improve their clarity and fluency instead of trying to make their accents more American, British, Australian or whatever, unless they really want to get rid of their own cultures, which I don't see why people would want to do. Ok in some countries such as the UK they might want new immigrants to assimilate themselves into British culture, but I would say that people should do it to certain degree.
However, I don't think that first-generation people should force their kids to have the culture they got back from where they're from, because these kids are no longer from that place anymore. Parents should let their kids choose what kind of cultures they want to have, and usually these kids would have a kind of mix culture, some from parents and some from other factors.
After all, I think the American culture is basically a part of everything. It used to be predominantly from Western European cultures, but now Asians are increasing their sphere of influence and they are doing a good job; look at K-pop in America and you'll know. I think most of the people here are either going back or to North America after they graduate from PAS. Most of us have some degree of Asian cultures and I do hope people can keep their cultures and share them with other people, instead of trying to be somebody whom they are not in the first place.

Asian pride.