Racial minorities with British accents

I'm not sure why this amuses me, and maybe it's not the most... cosmopolitan of me that it does, but... it does.

We have a lot of those in Britain. You'd love London.

Nearly all British cities/towns these days have ethnic minority communities of various kinds. The accent tends to be generational i.e. the older, first generation immigrants have the stereotypical foreign accents, whereas those actually born here often speak much the same as the rest of us.

Yeah it quite jarring coming from the city of no accent to hear the Indian woman or that big gold African chap to sound like that. London I such a cool city.

I see your Afro-Englishman and raise you one white Jamaican.

I see your white Jamaican and offer up an asian Italian.

I see your asian Italian and present a Norse Jew.

... I raise you an African Di Caprio

I remember watching some show or another when I was a kid with a black/Afro-British/whichever is the least offensive way to phrase it presenter, who had a mega-posh British accent, so that's pretty normal to me. But white guys with Jamaican accents? Woah, dude.

edited 30th Mar '11 9:05:09 PM by FreezairForALimitedTime

Indian women with British accents = yes please.

Just sayin'.

edited 30th Mar '11 10:57:17 PM by Verdandi

One of my teachers is a white Jamaican. He doesn't have a very strong accent, though.