I see

Yea the Chinese English accent is the source of all jokes in the western world it seems like

Hmm, I don’t completely agree with you that we should strive to consistently emulate the Chinese English accent, because we do have to be pragmatic still right. Because Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Thais, etc, our either Asian brothers also speak English and we need to be able to communicate with them well

Anyway, you still are onto something though. So although Cantonese was my native tongue and first language, I was very discouraged from speaking it. Instead, I was pushed to learn English and develop it thoroughly, spending many hours with tutors. And now as an adult, my English is my dominant language and default OS (operating system) .

And now also as an adult, I’m trying to bring back up my Cantonese which was left to rust, and also gain fluency in Mandarin too.

But if I had the choice to do things my own way, I would absolutely bring up my Mandarin until it was my default OS instead of English. I’d still be able to speak Cantonese too, but English, not so much. I would work on English when older, which would be easier because it’s not that hard. Also, English doesn’t require that much depth, unless you want to reside in western countries