The reason you discriminate against foreign accents starts with what they do to your brain - Michael Erard

The science behind accent perception and comprehension 

“That’s a basis on which it’s easy to make judgments about a person’s cultural affiliation or education,” says Ingrid Piller, a sociolinguist at Macquarie University in Brisbane, Australia, who studies language and migration and blogs about them. “It’s a springboard for a lot of heavy assumptions which may or may not be true.”​

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