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Jamaican Canadians still manage to have the accent because chances are their parents were from Jamaica but if they're Canadian... most of the time they sound Canadian.
I'm a black Canadian, and most black Canadian (born) DO NOT have a different speech patterns from whites, some may have a slightly different accents I find this especially true with men than with women. Some do pick up an accent from their parents.
I think what some people think is an accent is really "slang talk". Most slang is based of West Indian (mostly Jamaican) slang, so when people talking slangs they automatically put on an (Jafakican, lol) accent. It's similar to pronouncing a french word, you automatically put on a french accent.
Then you have the jokers,mostly teens, than put on the fake accent 24/7 pretending they're are hard.
Just to add, you do hear more of an accent in the younger generation than the older generations (my age and up). Growing up if I ever attempt to do a West Indian accent my parents would smack me. Most of my cousins were born in the US and they all have a slight Bajan accents with their Brooklyn accents. I asked my Dad why I don't have a slight accent and he said "I taught you to speak Canadian!"
I guess when they immigrated here their accent hinder them, and they didn't want to same for us. Since people are "more" accepting of accents compare to the 60s 70s and 80s, there isn't that pressure "to speak Canadian,lol".
My friends here and in the UK went through the same thing as me (correcting of the accent). One of my friends in the UK thinks that it's a shame that a lot of West Indian parents to teach their kids Patois, but that is a totally different conversation.
I would say that in the USA, almost all Pakistani, Arab and Asian-descended people taht were born in America sound idenitcal to the whites in their community.
Many Canadian born Asians imo sound a little different from their white counterparts, it could be also some influences from whatever language they may speak to their relatives in, that has a slight effect- whatever it is when I was in Vancouver the "CBCs" had a slightly different accent that I could tell they were Asian even if they spoke with a full Canadian accent
...for whatever reason I find American-born Asians are less likely to have this and sound even more identical to the whites in their community, even if they speak whatever additional language at home. I guess there will be people who would argue that the California-born Asians will have a different accent from the Whites, which is true for a minority but not for most.
I would say it is different. I remember the first time I met a Black Canadian. She is from Ontario. Her speech patterns and accent didn't sound any different from a White Canadian from Ontario. With me, however, people say my accent and speech patterns sound very different from African-Americans in the USA. I remember my French teacher telling me this in high school, who is from Newfoundland. I think we were on the subject of me traveling through Canada. I don't remember. However, the subject of accents came up. According to her, and I would say this is true to a certain extent, speech patterns and accents found among many African-Americans are mainly southern-influenced.
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