Yes. You become "acculturized" to the US. I meet a lot of people from all over the world. I am from New Orleans. It is a very international town. It is amazing, but I can just look at a person who is Hispanic, Asian, Indian, etc. and can tell before they even speak whether or not they were born in this country or not. Just the other day I pointed that out to a friend. We went to this Vietnamese restaruant and I said about the guy at the checkout, who was Asian, "Look, when he speaks, he will speak perfect English, because he was born here." And indeed he did. There just is an "American look". I have no idea how to define it, but it is there.
Is this not true of non-French people in France? When you were growing up there, could you not simply look at Asian people for example and know whether or not they were born "French" or not?
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