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8. *** There's a bit of old world snobbishness, but recently heard a (Brit?) say

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:59 PM

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that they were surprised to find the English accent/dialect made us 'muricans react as "inferior", that back home (Britain) it is just the way they talk and sound and it doesn't give them extra status (we know there are class distinctions), but that in America they are considered extra Classy. Same goes in Hispanic 'murica, that the Spanish dialect is considered high class, while the Latino is low.

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