[TexasSP]

The Native American thing as true as it is really doesn't apply to today. I didn't do it and no one is left that had it done to.

Most countries were immigrated to in the first place. Last I checked Great Brittain didn't originally have English speaking Limeys running around either. Spanish wasn't the primary language of South America either, and surely many parts of the Middle East were not Arabic.

You kind of have to focus on the here and now. That ebonics garbage will only fly so far, no one will get a serious job making good money talking like that less they be an athlete or rapper. Much past that your screwed. Same goes for talking like back woods white trash unless your Larry The Cable Guy (and if you ever heard him in real life he sounds nothing like his character).

Of course the smart ones learn to talk to their audience anyway. I can speak comfortably in almost any company by adjusting how I talk and words I use. I have black friends that can speak like a well breed Harvard White Boy but can brother it up around others. In fact one of the most articulate people I know can do both very well. The funniest to me is some coon ass friends that go from perfect white boy English to back woods Louisiana talk in the next sentence. Hell that stuff sounds like a whole different language anyway.