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 nostr:npub1mk9ezfwp0glha855ea5x7y5h4r678vqpurvfpxf50srv4ddvrawsendqzy nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs I'm sorry, but I have such a love-hate attitude toward the British, I want to say, "So what's your point," about making fun of the British. But your point is well taken. I think anytime there is such appropriation, it should be done with respect. In Dick VanDyke's case, it wasn't that he had a cockney accent so much as the way he portrayed lower-classed people, making fun of their station in life.