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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw this on GMA.  His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class.  A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy.  Congrats to both.  This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.[/quote]

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

I'm proud of the young man. He's so well-spoken. [b]I was expecting an accent given that he's first gen[/b]. His parents did a terrific job.

And yes, his was a TREMENDOUS feat. How many kids do you know getting into all 8 ivies?

I know a TON of upper middle class students who don't get into 1.[/quote]

Why would he have an accent?  He was born here and grew up here.  [/quote]

+1. He was born and raised American. Where will he get an accent? [/quote]

I can answer this as a Cuban American.  Have you visited Miami?  My first-generation American Cuban friends (now in our 40s) speak English with a Cuban-Spanish accent, just like their/our immigrant parents.  Perhaps more surprisingly, the children of my friends, second-generation American Cubans (from toddlers to late teens), also speak English with the Cuban-Spanish accent of their immigrant grandparents.[/quote]
Why are you comparing thousands of Cubans living together and keeping their Cuban-Spanish accent to a young man from Ghana whose parents probably don't live in a neighborhood with thousands of countrymen around them whose speaking style would greatly influence the children. Yes, Cubanos, you all speak whatever Spanglish you want to speak, but most children of immigrants won't have an accent.[/quote]

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