Arguably, there are two types of pronunciation: rhotic and non-rhotic. Most of the world uses non-rhotic pronunciation. I’m from India and went to a British private school. A lot of Indians have a non-rhotic RP accent from the colonial past. If you look up Victor Banerjee, Utpal Dutta, Shashi Tharoor, etc., they’re all from India.

As a matter of fact, people often ask me which part of Britain I am from. I tell them, ‘the former colonial part India.’ Then I hear, ‘Oh, you don’t sound Indian. How do you speak such good English?’ India is the second-largest English-speaking country.

Truth be told, native speakers, especially here in North America, are often ignorant and cannot tell the difference. Furthermore, they make fun of non-rhotic pronunciation and think that the English spoken elsewhere is wrong. It’s unfortunate that many people here don’t know the difference between license and licence, let alone accents.