• Which Americans are we talking? Because a Yooper, Scots-Irish Appalachian, Cajun Louisianan, and some poor bastard from Baker California have little in common. Hell I’m a Southern Californian Redneck and frankly if I have to interact with my Northern Californian ilk I’m stabbing someone and dumping their corpse in an open mine shaft.

        • All of them I think? The Anglo Saxon culture still dominates and founded the basis of American culture itself.

  • If you can do a reasonably standard English accent, Americans will mentally add 20 IQ points to how intelligent they perceive you to be.

    • I once met a woman that was in her late 20s. Worked in tech for 3 years in Prague, and had a pretty TV style British accent.

      She was from the Midwest. Spent 3 years in Prague and visited the UK like 3 times, then moved back to Chicago. Insisted she “worked with a lot of Brits and it just stuck.”

      Yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of tall people. Didn’t make me grow taller.

      • Yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of tall people. Didn’t make me grow taller.

        You should have worked with small people. That works better.