My mouth and tongue and larynx and history shape my accent and is not yours to talk about. It's mine. Do not imitate it because you look like a fool and is not nice for your image. Avoid using it to categorize different accents, and placing them and mine in a specific level of development. Accept that my accent results from a particular colonial history as much as yours (a daughter or son of colonized, colonialists and colonial peoples). It can be used by the same powers who place me in an accent-related and very accented discussion, to keep you busy with sounds and intonations, in order to function within a certain scheme of things that are accented with certain marks and punctuation signs by the accent scribes.
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