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To: RaceBannon
He said Kenyan, but to me, since I was living n the Pacific and did a tour of Asia 2 months previously, he didnt look asian What I couldn’t understand, is why he spoke perfect English for being raised in Indonesia

If the biography in Wikipedia is accurate, he was in the US until the age of 6, and then was in the US from the age of 10. Bottom line is that it should be no mystery.

60 posted on 01/22/2015 4:15:41 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

no mystery??
You must have never met anyone who was raised overseas
from age 6 to 10, in a foreign land, he would have picked up an accent of some kind

I know adults who pick up foreign accents of England and Australia who move over age 20 and spend one single year, you hear it in different words

but for a CHILD from age 6 to 10 to NOT pick it up...THAT is the mystery...


87 posted on 01/22/2015 4:22:44 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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