Born in the USA, and with the Latino Accent to Prove It

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Allison Ramírez was born in Miami, and so was her accent. Though she always tells people she's American they refuse to accept that as an answer to the question "Where are you from?".

"I've been here my whole life and I speak English better than Spanish," said Ramírez, who is currently in graduate school in Savannah, Georgia and whose mother is Cuban and father is Colombian. "It's like you can't be from [the U.S.] if you have dark hair and dark eyes and you don't sound like everyone else."

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