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Yes, there’s a snobbery regarding north and northeast accents in Brazil, the regions include Amazonia, the best beaches in Brazil, some of the biggest Carnivals in the world, A LOT of culture, and really beautiful portraits, but they are the poorest regions. I wasn’t aware of this issue in UK.
I’m northeastern and unfortunately I never traveled outside the northeast area of Brazil, BUT I’ve felt discrimination tons of times while playing online games. I’ve met tons of people from different areas in Brazil here in Dublin, and I never felt discrimination, but I have the feeling that people that travel abroad are more cool and open-minded, so I couldn’t guarantee that it would be the same if I lived in southeast area (as in the biggest city, São Paulo). Apart from it I could say that Irish people are incredible nice and I never felt discriminated by my english here.
It doesn’t bothers me, and after reading your text (thanks for that by the way), I feel really good about my own accent, I’ll take your advice to focus on pronounce and intonation.
