Accents to some are very appealing. Based on the fact that they are foreign alone. Yet even within the same country, there can be very many accents pointing to different regions. A Western New York Accent is certainly very different than a Southern accent, and a lot of other different ones as well, same language and everything. Many people are very attracted to ones that sound in the slightest bit foreign, and some can confuse an Australian accent for a South African one, as they can sound similar, but be very different.
I read once there’s a reason for why they sound appealing to us and that’s because if they sound that different they are sure to be from far away than where we are from and thus ensuring they are not related to us and a different gene pool than our own we may be in contact with more frequently ensuring a good match genetically if we bred with a foreigner rather than from someone say in our own city we may actually be related to. Complicated explanation, yet I can see the point, so the foreigner becomes more appealing on a level we hadn’t even contemplated.
Many of us are as my grandmother used to say, “susceptible to voices”, I certainly am. The right kind of voice will lead me like the Pied Piper led the rats, I follow it even to my own detriment I’ve found, an odd shortcoming, but it does exist. To some of us, our ears can be our downfall if we are attracted enough to the sexy voices.
