Speaking the black dialect is often taken negatively. I'm a Pakistani American. When My family came to the U.S., we were in Chicago. I went to middle school and high school there and picked up English in AAVE. Because I'm was brown guy speaking in a dialect that is associated with blacks. I was given a hard time during college by a lot of my friends, didint matter if they were black, white, Hispanics or even other Pakistani Americans. I was told that I'm trying too hard to be black. I slowly picked up white dialect of English when I noticed the way I spoke was affecting how I was interviewed.

The tradition in itself is a funny story because I had learned how to speak with out the Indian(Pakistani accent) by the time I became fluent in English during middle and high school. But it was much more difficult to suppress the accent when I tried speaking in white vernacular. My friends and family started noticing the accent again and most of the time thought I was trying too hard to be funny and it was tasteless and uncool of me to do that. I guess I understand where they were coming from, since these are the people who are used to me speaking without the Indian/Pakistani accent. It was easier to drop the accent after a year or 2.

PS: India and Pakistan were once the same country so our accents are widely similar sounding; rather one in the same.

The reason I needed to drop the accent is because you are treated differently if you have an accent VS if you don't. Even some Pakistanis/Indians who don't have accents will jokingly refer to you as FOB(Fresh off the boat).

I wanted to be treated as an educated person amongst peers and friends so, I worked on suppressing my accent and dropping the black vernacular.