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One group is respected, the other ridiculed.

Giles Bowkett wonders if they're manifestations of the same phenomenon?

When a first-generation British-American meets an Anglophile, he gets a very precise (but probably less intense) simulation of what it must be like for African-Americans to encounter white kids pretending to be black. There's something utterly squirmy about the idea that somebody you've never met wants your cultural identity. I'm pretty sure this person, after they met my parents, went home and practiced their British accent so they could sound like my parents. That's flat-out weird.