when you learn english you sound like a Brit if you happen to learn from Brits, you sound like you're from Virginia if you happen to learn from a Southern American, and so the fuck what if you want to speak english with a Jamaican accent.
some people take it to embarrassing extremes.
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how many million times do you think his 100% fake patois was considered "embarrassing" before he started playing sold out shows in Jamaica alongside the biggest reggae artists?
it's not difficult to find white rastas with perfect patois in Germany. at first of course it seemed a bit weird, but i have come to respect them for their choices in life -- "authenticity" is for the birds.
perhaps i feel this way because i myself am an imigrant who moved across the world as a child, who has had to take on foreign mannerisms to survive:
if you like something, go for it. if you love something deeply, don't let fearful people who have no faith or vision stop you from saturating your life with it, and becoming that which you want to be.
with that said, of course it has to be judged on an individual basis... because a lotta cases are clearly just
and that's all they will ever be.