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Colonial Mentality and Affected Accents

There was this one absolutely hilarious night I was out with one of the guys from the drama troupe and my girlfriend joined us for some drinks at the Alley Bar and she was going on and on about colonial mentality and all that jazz- while quite drunk after too many Hoegaardens- and later when she left, I asked C what he thought of her he went, “Well, she quite epitomizes the people she was talking about”

We weren’t talking about SPGs per se; just people who had a blind worship of the west, and from the way she was going on and on about angmos and expatriate salaries *laugh* it was quite funny in a politically incorrect manner.

Well, C apparently, is a broke Brit guy. You don’t really find many of those here, but he’s one of them. And I think I had to pay cab fare for him that night. It was mildly annoying–I never asked him out again, duh-

Colonial mentality is a strange and troublesome thing. Some sociologists tell me it’s because we’ve modernized just that little bit too fast, and everything’s imported. Everything; from technology down to culture. And it shows.

Most local people should really stop criticizing SPGs; innately, they all suffer from this syndrome anyway. In fact, I think party girls are better at coping with it then most other people, simply because they’re exposed to it all the time; and novelty soon wears off into the ordinary.

Think about it, how many people try to talk with an accent when they’re around someone that’s speaking with one? Unless you’re perfectly comfortable with the way you speak, you like the way your voice sounds, and you think there’s no accent that’s better then it is, chances are, you’re going to speak with a slang. I’ve seen businessmen as old as 40 do it, and it’s funny. Tons of people do it (even non-english speaking Europeans) and SPG critiques should stop trying to make fun of the girls when they talk with a slang. They can’t help it. For sure they think speaking with an accent makes them well, better, more articulate; and for sure some of them sound like idiots doing it, but it’s just wrong to criticize them specifically when everyone else would do it anyway. It’s an affliction that’s exemplified in the some party girls, but it’s also something that goes way beyond them.

But I’m sure we all know that; Asia has a fixation with the West.

I have to rush of for a run now -trying to loose that troublesome kilo before sunday's photoshoot.
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