when i arrived in toronto & started work at the front desk, most of the people i checked in immediately asked me if i was german. i always thought "damn, is it really that obvious? "
in the last few months i have been hanging out with canadians, germans & mexicans a lot, so my accent started to change. but i find it very confusing that now people mistake me as being from South Africa or Sweden. How is that even possible?? Hardly anyone thinks of me as being German anymore and i find this very startling. How on earth can I have a swedish or south african accent without ever having been to any of those countries???

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