Returned diaspora youth are marked by accents in their parents’ homeland

Evidence

There was an experience I had in Iran when I was about thirteen or fourteen. I was in an electronics store in the passage [mal ], and you know, I was looking at a game or something, and the shopkeeper asked [in Persian], “Why does he have an accent [when speaking Persian]?” — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 400