Adding my story to the list. I grew up in France, from white parents, classical music professionals, catholic practicing. With what I now recognize as a posh f

Adding my story to the list. I grew up in France, from white parents, classical music professionals, catholic practicing. With what I now recognize as a posh french accent, that they consciously learned as a way to climb the social ladder. I went to the town school where 80% of the students were descendent of North African immigrants, mostly from Algeria. Most of those kids lived in projects city, and part of their identity is a specific accent differentiating them from the outside of the project city. This accent is not really related to Arabic; it is distinctively different; with what I can only describe as a palpable aggressivity in tone. I ended up under police protection after a few broken limbs. This was more than 25y ago. Sometimes I wonder what those kids have become. If they sometimes regret. As recently as a couple years ago, a white posh accent kid at the same school got bullied and almost suffocated to death with a fire extinguisher. By the next generation of those immigrants. I am now an immigrant in the Bay Area. Nobody cares about my accent here ;)