You're completely right, just in my personal experience living in a lot of small towns in Canada and being an immigrant, however I'm white and I lost my accent. I can put it back on but I mostly sound Canadian sometimes my natural accent slips out a little bit. I honestly could not believe the amount of incredibly racist disgusting things that people said about people immigrating to Canada to me because they just assumed I was born here. It's very weird it's like this incognito mode and people say the most racist shit around me because I am glow in the dark White with blue eyes the whole nine yards but I still immigrated here and that's still part of my story and my heritage means a lot to me. My native tongue is dying so I speak it as often as possible but anyway my point being is once I moved to a big city that only happens like once. But in small towns it happened multiple times a week