i will rename you Lamont if Julio is not your liking.
for one thing i'm asian but speak english with a british accent due to my childhood years invested in british educational system. Also I speak Malay, Cantonese, Mandarin, limited Hokkein, French and americans i have met are usually impressed until i tell them that it is the norm for people in Asia (esp. South East Asia) to speak 3-4 languages and more than 2 regional dialects per language. many westerners who have lived here for a while also adopt the language practices and have smoothly blended in with the locals.
over here we do have a strong american culture influence with local rap groups and rock bands and the indigenous aboriginal cultures suffer the same fate as those elsewhere. the local culture is a mish-mash of brit/us/oz/korean/japanese influences. i think this is most apparant in Singapore. the other countries maintain a strong local identity.
like the e.indian cultures, chinese culture and migratory history through the ages have been noted in existence even in n.america before columbus landed and the theory is that the chinese sailed and traded goods and technology with the north and south americans as early as 1421 without interfering with the existing cultures nor having a colonization program like the european countries.
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