There's almost 0 state efforts to preserve the cultural identities of immigrants of any kind
When people celebrate "diversity" in the West, it's just eating shawarma, drinking boba, watching Anime, listening to kpop, and eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. Pure commodification and consumerism masquerading as celebration and promotion of foreign cultures
Or you'll have people fetishizing about spicy latinas, lightskins, and Asians like they're fucking Pokemon cards
Im second gen and was specifically raised to sound
. No slang, no patois, no aave, because idk id sound smarter or some other bullshit
The sad part is your parents were probably correct. You probably do have better opportunities and impressions in
because you sound 
That is a fact. I beat out any semblance of accent from my English (learned as a second language tho) in order to be taken more seriously by