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What do native English speakers think of the various American accents? Which is more or less pleasing to the ear?

For example: Midwestern (generally considered generic US), Southern and East Coast.
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar Imagine a person talking into a metal can, and there being a tinny sound in their voice. That's what all Americans sound like! There's some skewed pitch and flat tone of voice going on.

It just sounds like a person talking into a metal can, whether it's southern, california, texas, or whatever.

Update

Here is a dramatised video with amateur dramatics, so you can know what your American accents sound like to us lot, except that you sound worse than how the video sounds. You would be very surprised.
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