All the above indicates the future will hold, that the standard Australian accent will be tainted with an Asian accentuated bias as the norm.

Don`t fret DD, we will all be coffee colored one day.
That is the few that are left.

I thought we had got over this nonsense. Apparently not.

For years I have railed against the Australian female Country and Western singers who insist on emulating their American cousins when they are singing Australian songs. To my ear and many others, nothing sounds worse.
David

The author equates Yankee with American. There was a Civil War between the United States of America whose soldiers were called Yankees by the traitorous South. To call an American from the southern states a Yankee is to deny that past. What is called a Yankee accent which incorporates the speech patterns of the southern or western United States would not be called Yankee by Yankees. I am a dual citizen of Australia and the United States. I consider Yankees to be the residents of the six New England states - Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Yankee speech patterns are the speech patterns of those states. Speech patterns from other parts of the United States are American speech patterns but not Yankee - at least not to an American.

Davidf, your point is well taken. The New Englanders are much easier to listen to than some of the accents from south of the Mason-Dixon line. The term most Aussies would use when referring to American citizens is actually Yanks not Yankees, a subtle difference.
David