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As per the back and forth of this 6 page thread, disregard that.

I teach my students that there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking someone to repeat what they've said, to speak more slowly, or to even spell something when it seems too difficult to understand the word being said.

Having traveled far and wide, I've had to use these tactics to communicate effectively with people from all varieties of places, including America, England, Hungary, New Zealand...even QUEBEC(pretty thick accent that one is).

If the statement is that Americans the OP has met have been inordinately animated and in effect rude when unable to understand various parts of a conversation with a non-neutral accent, well, that is kind of the deal with the 'ugly American'. It is one type of many. There are 'uglies' as examples from any place I've been.

The ugliest are those that take 2 dozen exposures to one country's citizenry and decide one thing or another. Most of us do it, but we might catch ourselves in the interest of personal growth.

Now, the question which is raised here on occasion is: should they discriminate when hiring? Is it a long answer? We all know examples of people from any given English-speaking nationality who are difficult and even impossible to understand.

We also know individuals from those same countries who speak with astounding clarity and an elegance that echoes of their unique geographical origin.

The OP is kind of saying, in essence, that he/she is tired of being treated (by specifically Americans ) as if his/her use of English is difficult or impossible to understand (and this being done in an impolite and boisterous manner).

Such as that is, the real gripe is of individuals, regardless of origin, who make a loud and unappealing spectacle of the fact that they personally struggle with pronunciations unlike their own.

Ah well. Sometimes people spit on the sidewalk as I stroll by.
I'd complain about either also, and so we are here.
Complaining about really individuals, but being mistaken due to the initial verbiage, as a stronger emphasis on a blanket statement about one nation's people.

I think all people suck. So really, I'm not surprised that when confronted with a member of the species with which I share classification, the OP found sucking to be a definitive attribute. If he/she looked at it more closely, the suck did not stop there.

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I had to change my accent to be understood. I only originally attempted to change how I said down/town etc and it carried over into how I talk all the time. Most people can't place where I'm from thinking I'm from canada (but not east coast).