Not so much of the Aussie accent, Woody - I've spent hours listening to Brendan Foster and Steve Cram calling athletics

WAV, trust me - you sound as Australian now as you ever have. In this respect in attempting to delude everyone else you are only deluding yourself. Most people can at least sing beyond their own accents, not so yourself however. In trying to be anything else other than what you are you will, at last, end up being nothing at all - nothing real anyway. You are sacrificing your essential human and cultural Australian-English uniqueness for the sake of a bogus version of an Englishness that is neither one thing nor the other. At least the transexual has something aim for; but one is increasingly reminded of the barely human mask that is Michael Jackson.

American's can't do English either; just listen to Dick Van Dyke, or more recently the actors who play the members of Seattle's English community on Frasier.

and I've never mentioned skin colour - in anthropology, we were taught NOT to refer to people in terms of colour (in agreement, in this case, with the American way of "African American", e.g.).

In other words, WAV - you are very careful in your choice of banal euphemism, but in saying things like England was a more English place 50 years ago and English culture is taking a hammering and even I love the WORLD being multicultural etc. it's obvious to everyone what your true feelings are on the matter. When asked to account for such statements, you refuse to answer or elaborate, simply because if you weren't racist, none of it would be an issue in the first place.

Instead of wasting time in the risible pursuit of trying to effect an accent which is not your own, you really should be doing some serious soul searching about the your racism and taking steps to curb such wretched enthusiasms before it gets you into serious bother.