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Apart from all that, enjoyed reading this

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Few people have ever asked me in America how my English is so good. Not sure why I don’t run into this seemingly quintessential American immigrant experience more often (maybe mine just isn’t good). But if someone does ever remark on it I don’t feel annoyed at all. Where does the annoyance come from, I wonder? The expectation that someone should consider me a natural American? Why? I always say, ‘Yeah we were colonized by the British, that’s why’. Or ‘Too much Netflix’. I have no pride attached to knowing English, well or not. It is what it is. I do not see it as as much my language as theirs. It is THEIR language and I know it. That’s it.

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