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Here the British accent is overly popular and fake 90% of the time. I have met teachers who teach English that have outrageous fake accents and they wonder why their students all sound like idiots when they speak. The British had a very big impact here, so much so that the local Indian population tried to sue the British government for bringing then to Malaysia all those years ago. But these are the same people that talk in the overly fake British accent and insist on tea time and a GnT after work. They love to take the good points and then complain about the parts they don't like, but funny enough none want to go back to India, they want, well no one really knows what they want.
When I go to restaurants alone its funny because people will start talking English and louder than usual, with that fake Brit accent, all the time looking over at me to see if I have noticed, and before you suggest I am overly full of myself, I have heard many other expats say the same thing. The most interesting thing is they speak Chinglish, Manglish or Singlish, and with the Brit accent, its funny and a little sad that they don't embrace Malaysian culture.
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