Exactly I was born in NZ and raised in Australia. I have an Australian accent although it varies region to region but still people will recognise it as an Australian accent. Clearly Asim don’t have an Indian accent but much like an American-Indian accent,
Originally posted by: NepaliArtist
Hm, well I was raised in Massachussets and have lived in California my whole adult life, and I hear a very distinct American twang when he speaks English. And frankly, I think Priyanka Chopra also has an American twang (her's is more like a valley-girl accent, whereas Asim's is more like a Brooklyn prep accent). I do agree that fake accents are generally an issue in terms of colonial mindset and superiority signaling in South Asian society. But, I think people are very unfair to Priyanka on this accent thing. Some people are more impressionable than others, and for many its about when you pick up a certain cadence in your voice. Priyanka lived in Newton, MA (which is a very preppy east coast city) very briefly, yet during a formative time in life. It could be very possible that she slips in and out depending on who she's talking with. Its a basic evolutionary biological trait, known as mirroring personalities, and is actually a great subconscious way of becoming likable. Useful for movie stars like her! Plus, in the ~60 days I've seen Asim, his accent hasn't slipped one bit, so I'm inclined to believe that even if he picked it up deliberately at one point, this is his comfort cadence now, and I think that's totally fine tbh.
By the way, I've struggled with this regional vs big-picture thing all my life too as a third culture kid who travelled around because of parents work. You're absolutely right that there are regional accents, but there is a general umbrella accent most people agree on. Someone from the Northeast doesn't sound like someone from the deep south, who doesn't sound like someone from Orange County. But this is like saying a Marathi speaker speaking English doesn't sound like a Gujrati speaker speaking English, who doesn't sound like a South Indian speaking english. Its absolutely correct, but in the world outside India, there is a certain cadence known as an 'Indian accent,' the same way there is a cadence people elsewhere like to call an 'American' accent. What one thinks of as a 'British' accent is generally a South London type accent, which is vastly different from one from Manchester, which is again vastly different from a Liverpool accent.
Based on what I've heard from Asim, it sounds more American than anything else to me. But, who knows what hits people's ears differently!
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