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    I was just following the humor. lol. When I was in Hong Kong in some parts there were a lot of British people. In some ways it was kind of like being in the US. People spoke English everywhere, more like superior English actually.
    British English is the standard in a lot of the Commonwealth. I went to Hong Kong as a child when it was still a colony, in fact, and one or two ancestors were born there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Longbowman View Post
    British English is the standard in a lot of the Commonwealth. I went to Hong Kong as a child when it was still a colony, in fact, and one or two ancestors were born there.
    I realized that, most of the world speaks British English. As much as I hate to admit it, but we Americans are the ones with the strange accent, lol. I was in HK when it was a colony.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cppman View Post
    I realized that, most of the world speaks British English. As much as I hate to admit it, but we Americans are the ones with the strange accent, lol. I was in HK when it was a colony.
    Americans and Canadians have a rhotic accent like the Irish, the Cornish, and like the folk in south-west England. Shakespeare's rhotic accent, which was used more in the time of medieval England.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stefan_Dusan View Post
    Indian society is very judgmental society and very conservative society but for some reason very passive society. I'm curious why.
    Could be the tropical climate, the extreme heat in the summer months who knows

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Rose View Post
    Americans and Canadians have a rhotic accent like the Irish, the Cornish, and like the folk in south-west England. Shakespeare's rhotic accent, which was used more in the time of medieval England.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmtqn8wANLY
    That video sounds almost like American Country music. But the Irish I have met speak with an accent closer to British that American.
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    Malnutrition may be a factor too. Starving Africans for example appear very apathetic too, coincidence?

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    it was Indians fighting against Indians. british used divide and rule policy. sided with one king against another. it took 200 years to completely conquer india. Afghanistan is mountaneous and cant be easily conquered although we Sikhs have ruled parts of it.. half of Afghanistan is in Pakistan because british inherited it from Sikh empire. there was nothing in Afghanistan whereas india was worlds largest economy back then..

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    Because people of British decent are Gods, . I mean English is God's Language.

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