... reason that both the accent originated and why it is so identifiable around the world. One possible reason that the accent is so well known is the globalization of American culture as a whole. For example, while studying abroad in Paris last year, I was pleasantly surprised to find that most major supermarkets had an "American" aisle, home to products like ... that reside in Queens. While there has always been a large Chinese existence in Manhattan, waves of immigrants from other parts of Asia are now calling Queens home, especially people from India. According to the Asian American Fed...

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... of them is the ideology of self belonging to a specific nation, in which sense a fellow-feeling to other nation people and in which you get an awareness of sharing a common culture and identity. You sing patriotic songs and seek the national benefits rather than your own values and interests. An other meaning is more of an official one and based on ... of Kurdish rebels, East Timorese against Indonesia, by Chechens against Russia, and by Sudan's southern Christians against the Islamic rulers in the north, and by both Sikhs and Kashmiris against India. (Danziger, 2001,268) A more recent ...

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