Firstly, glad to have you back!! :D

And yeah, I do think that our social identity or nationality has nothing to do with the way we want our accent to be. There's absolutely no need to follow a particular accent just because you belong from a certain somewhere.

The way I see it, accents are like cultural fashion. Even if you're Western, no one stops you from wearing an Indian saree. The same way, why should anyone stop us from speaking the way we like? After all, freedom of speech, right?